The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics

The Resource The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics
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The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics
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right-wing movements and national politics
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Rory McVeigh
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Language
eng
Summary
In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the nation's forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era society, the 1920s-era Klan exerted its influence far beyond the South. In The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of 1920s-era KKK, showing that althoug
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CaPaEBR
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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index present
LC call number
HS2330.K63
LC item number
M38 2009eb
Literary form
non fiction
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  • bibliography
Series statement
Social movements, protest, and contention
Series volume
32

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