The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition / Linda Gordon.
2017
HS2330.K63 G63 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition / Linda Gordon.
Author
Gordon, Linda, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781631493690 (hardcover)
1631493698 (hardcover)
9781631494925 (paperback)
1631494929 (paperback)
1631493698 (hardcover)
9781631494925 (paperback)
1631494929 (paperback)
Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Language
English
Description
xiv, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Call Number
HS2330.K63 G63 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
322.4/2097309042
Summary
"A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan" largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line--its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century ... Never secret, this Klan recruited openly, through newspaper ads, in churches, and through extravagant mass "Americanism" pageants, often held on Independence Day. These "Klonvocations" drew tens of thousands and featured fireworks, airplane stunts, children's games, and women's bake-offs--and, of course, cross-burnings. The Klan even controlled about one hundred and fifty newspapers, as well as the Cavalier Motion Picture Company, dedicated to countering Hollywood's "immoral"--And Jewish--influence. The Klan became a major political force, electing thousands to state offices and over one hundred to national offices ..."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-250) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : "100% Americanism"
Rebirth
Ancestors
Structures of feeling
Recruitment, ritual, and profit
Spectacles and Evangelicals
Vigilantism and manliness
KKK feminism
Oregon and the attack on parochial schools
Political and economic warfare
Constituents
Legacy : down but not out.
Rebirth
Ancestors
Structures of feeling
Recruitment, ritual, and profit
Spectacles and Evangelicals
Vigilantism and manliness
KKK feminism
Oregon and the attack on parochial schools
Political and economic warfare
Constituents
Legacy : down but not out.