Ku-Klux :: the birth of the Klan during Reconstruction /

"The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long...

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Main Author: Parsons, Elaine Frantz, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North"--
Item Description:"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
Physical Description:1 online resource (388 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-375) and index.
ISBN:9781469625447
146962544X
9781469625430
1469625431

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