Ten dollars to hate :: the Texas man who fought the Klan /

Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s-by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War-and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Te...

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1. Verfasser: Bernstein, Patricia, 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 23.
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Zusammenfassung:Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s-by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War-and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas district attorney, demonstrated that Klansmen could be punished for taking the law into their own hands-in this case, for the vicious flogging of a young World War I veteran. The 1920s Klan numbered in the millions and infiltrated politics and law enforcement across the United States, not just in the Deep
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:162349530X
9781623495305

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