The Invisible Empire

Author : Stanley Fitzgerald Horn
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1376992140

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Invisible Empire; The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871 by Stanley Fitzgerald Horn Pdf

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Author : Anthony S. Karen
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Racism
ISBN : 1576874907

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The Invisible Empire by Anthony S. Karen Pdf

The KKK remains one of the US's most secretive organisations but photojournalist Anthony S. Karen transcended that secrecy when he got the opprtunity to photograph a KKK ceremony. Since then, he has documented the organisation throughout the US. Taken with unrestricted access, the reader is drawn deep inside this private white nationalist organisation and introduced to a detailed visual account of modern day Klan life. Included are candid shots of rallies, portraits of Klansmen and a look at the naturalisation process for new members.

Author : Laura Martin Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112083987096

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The Ku Klux Klan by Laura Martin Rose Pdf

Author : Shawn Lay
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0252071719

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The Invisible Empire in the West by Shawn Lay Pdf

This timely anthology describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan became one of the most influential social movements in modern American history. For decades historians have argued that the spectacular growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was fueled by a postwar surge in racism, religious bigotry, and status anxiety among lower-class white Americans. In recent years a growing body of scholarship has contradicted that appraisal, emphasizing the KKK's strong links to mainstream society and its role as a medium of corrective civic action. Addressing a set of common questions, contributors to this volume examine local Klan chapters in six Western cities: Denver, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; El Paso, Texas; Anaheim, California; and Eugene and La Grande, Oregon. Far from being composed of marginal men prone to violence and irrationality, the Klan drew its membership from a generally balanced cross section of the white male Protestant population. Overt racism and religious bigotry were major drawing cards for the hooded order, but intolerance frequently intertwined with community issues such as improved law enforcement, better public education, and municipal reform. The authors consolidate, focus, and expand upon new scholarship in a volume that should provide readers with an enhanced appreciation of the complex reasons why the Klan became one of the largest and most significant grass-roots social movements in twentieth-century America.

Author : Micky Neilson,Todd Warger
Publisher : Insight Comics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 168383447X

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The Invisible Empire by Micky Neilson,Todd Warger Pdf

2020 IBPA Awards Winner! Discover the true story of Madge Oberholtzer in this graphic novel retelling of her controversial case, which exposed the political corruption in Indiana and revealed the true face of the infamous Ku Klux Klan. In 1925 the KKK in Indiana was at the height of its influence, with one third of the state's white population counted among its ranks. It was seen as a very patriotic, pro-working class organization. However, the case of Madge Oberholtzer would change that forever. Madge was a young, white, middle-class Indiana resident who worked for D.C. Stephenson, a powerful politician in Indiana and former KKK Grand Dragon who led a coup dividing the Northern Klan. On March 15th, Stephenson and his henchmen abducted Madge at gunpoint and forced her to accompany Stephenson on a private train to Chicago, where he would call himself the “law in Indiana” and proceed to brutally beat and victimize her. Before succumbing to her injuries, Madge provided a full statement of her abuse at the hands of Stephenson which would expose the depths of Indiana's political corruption and lay bare the true face of the Ku Klux Klan—a revelation that would have a ripple effect on America's impression of the Klan from that day forward.

Author : Georgie Wemyss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317027003

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The Invisible Empire by Georgie Wemyss Pdf

This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire. She demonstrates how the repetitive burying of British Empire histories of violence in the retelling of Britain’s past works to disguise how power operates in the present, showing how other related elements have been substantially reproduced through time to accommodate the challenges of history. The book combines ethnographic and discourse analysis with the study of connected histories to reveal how the dominant discourse maintains its dominance through its flexibility and its strategic alliances with subordinate groups.

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813021200

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The Invisible Empire by Michael Newton Pdf

The author looks back on 130 years of Ku Klux Klan history in Florida, examining their nefarious activities and the official collusion that protected and kept them in power.

Author : Pranay Lal
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789354922893

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Invisible Empire by Pranay Lal Pdf

Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all. Everything about them is extreme, including the reactions they evoke. However, for every truism about viruses, the opposite is also often true. So complex and diverse is the world of viruses that it merits being labelled an empire unto itself. And whether we see them as alive or dead, as life-threatening or life-affirming, there is an ineluctable beauty, even a certain elegance, in the way viruses go about their lives-or so Pranay Lal tells us in Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses. This is a book that defies categorisation. It brings together science, history and great storytelling to paint a fascinating picture of viruses as a major actor, not just in human civilisation but also in the human body. With rare photographs, paintings, illustrations and anecdotes, it is a magnificent and an extremely relevant book for our times, when we are attempting to understand viruses and examining their role in the lives of humans.

Author : James Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742550788

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Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan by James Michael Martinez Pdf

In some places during Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric high jinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but he arguably did more than any other person or entity to expose the identity of the Invisible Empire as a group of hooded, brutish, homegrown terrorists. In compiling evidence to prosecute the leading Klansmen and restoring at least a semblance of order to South Carolina, Merrill and his men demonstrated that the portrayal of the KKK as a chivalric organization was at best a myth and at worst a lie. Book jacket.

Author : William Loren Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Ku-Klux Klan (19th cent.)
ISBN : 0940880148

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The Invisible Empire by William Loren Katz Pdf

Author : William Rawlings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Hate groups
ISBN : 0881465615

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The Second Coming of the Invisible Empire by William Rawlings Pdf

Fifty years after the end of the Civil War, William Joseph Simmons, a failed Methodist minister, formed a fraternal order that he called The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Organised primarily a money-making scheme, it shared little but its name with the Ku Klux Klan of the reconstruction Era. This original and meticulously researched history of America's second Ku Klux Klan presents many new and fascinating insights into this unique and important episode in American History.

Author : Felix Harcourt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226637938

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Ku Klux Kulture by Felix Harcourt Pdf

In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and penetrated popular American culture, reaching far beyond its paying membership to become part of modern American society. The Klan owned radio stations, newspapers, and sports teams, and its members created popular films, pulp novels, music, and more. Harcourt shows how the Klan’s racist and nativist ideology became subsumed in sunnier popular portrayals of heroic vigilantism. In the process he challenges prevailing depictions of the 1920s, which may be best understood not as the Jazz Age or the Age of Prohibition, but as the Age of the Klan. Ku Klux Kulture gives us an unsettling glimpse into the past, arguing that the Klan did not die so much as melt into America’s prevailing culture.

Author : John Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611461657

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The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921–1928 by John Craig Pdf

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania’s twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period between the Klan’s initial appearance in the state in 1921 and its virtual disappearance by 1928, particularly the heyday of the Invisible Empire, 1923–1925. This book examines a wide variety of KKK activities, but devotes special attention to the two large and deadly Klan riots in Carnegie and Lilly, as well as vigilantism associated with the intolerant order. Klansmen were drawn from a pool of ordinary Pennsylvanians who were driven, in part, by the search for fraternity, excitement, and civic betterment. However, their actions were also motivated by sinister, darker emotions and purposes. Disdainful of the rule of law, the Klan sought disorder and mayhem in pursuit of a racist, nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish agenda.

Author : Thomas R. Pegram
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566639224

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One Hundred Percent American by Thomas R. Pegram Pdf

In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national politics. But the hooded bubble burst at mid-decade, and the social movement that had attracted several million members and additional millions of sympathizers collapsed into insignificance. Since the 1990s, intensive community-based historical studies have reinterpreted the 1920s Klan. Rather than the violent, racist extremists of popular lore and current observation, 1920s Klansmen appear in these works as more mainstream figures. Sharing a restrictive American identity with most native-born white Protestants after World War I, hooded knights pursued fraternal fellowship, community activism, local reforms, and paid close attention to public education, law enforcement (especially Prohibition), and moral/sexual orthodoxy. No recent general history of the 1920s Klan movement reflects these new perspectives on the Klan. One Hundred Percent American incorporates them while also highlighting the racial and religious intolerance, violent outbursts, and political ambition that aroused widespread opposition to the Invisible Empire. Balanced and comprehensive, One Hundred Percent American explains the Klan's appeal, its limitations, and the reasons for its rapid decline in a society confronting the reality of cultural and religious pluralism.

Author : Miguel Hernandez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429883620

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The Ku Klux Klan and Freemasonry in 1920s America by Miguel Hernandez Pdf

The Second Ku Klux Klan’s success in the 1920s remains one of the order’s most enduring mysteries. Emerging first as a brotherhood dedicated to paying tribute to the original Southern organization of the Reconstruction period, the Second Invisible Empire developed into a mass movement with millions of members that influenced politics and culture throughout the early 1920s. This study explores the nature of fraternities, especially the overlap between the Klan and Freemasonry. Drawing on many previously untouched archival resources, it presents a detailed and nuanced analysis of the development and later decline of the Klan and the complex nature of its relationship with the traditions of American fraternalism.