The Rise Of The Ku Klux Klan

Author : Allan Bartley
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506145

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The Ku Klux Klan in Canada by Allan Bartley Pdf

The Ku Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, the Klan found fertile ground for its message of racism and discrimination targeting African Canadians, Jews and Catholics. While its organizers fought with each other to capture the funds received from enthusiastic members, the Klan was a venue for expressions of race hatred and a cover for targeted acts of harassment and violence against minorities. Historian Allan Bartley traces the role of the Klan in Canadian political life in the turbulent years of the 1920s and 1930s, after which its membership waned. But in the 1970s, as he relates, small extremist right- wing groups emerged in urban Canada, and sought to revive the Klan as a readily identifiable identity for hatred and racism. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada tells the little-known story of how Canadians adopted the image and ideology of the Klan to express the racism that has played so large a role in Canadian society for the past hundred years — right up to the present.

Author : Rory McVeigh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816656196

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The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan by Rory McVeigh Pdf

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 although the organization continued to promote white supremacy, it also addressed a surprisingly wide range of social and economic issues, targeting immigrants and, particularly, Catholics, as well as African Americans, as dangers to American society.

Author : Elaine Frantz Parsons
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625430

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Ku-Klux by Elaine Frantz Parsons Pdf

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. Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

Author : David Cunningham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199752027

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Klansville, U.S.A by David Cunningham Pdf

Looks at the rise of KKK activity during the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, focusing especially on the disproportionately large amount of Klan members in North Carolina.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Joseph G. Bilby and Harry Ziegler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142625

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Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey, The by Joseph G. Bilby and Harry Ziegler Pdf

New Jersey is celebrated for its strong communities built across religious and ethnic lines as one of the nation's most diverse states. The state, though, was not immune to the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the first half of the twentieth century. Former vaudevillians Arthur H. Bell and his wife used the tactics of public theater to advertise and recruit for the organization. At a massive riot in Perth Amboy, thousands of immigrants besieged a few hundred Klansmen, tossed them out of building windows, burned their cars and ran them out of town. The allying of pro-Nazi German Bund groups and the Klan in the lead-up to World War II marked the end of the Klan's foothold. Authors Joseph Bilby and Harry Ziegler chart the brief rise of the Ku Klux Klan and how New Jersey collectively stood up to bigotry.

Author : Thomas R. Pegram
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Linda Gordon
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631493706

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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon Pdf

An urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review). Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this “second Klan” spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant “hordes” landing on American shores. “Part cautionary tale, part expose” (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK “illuminates the surprising scope of the movement” (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass “Klonvocations” prior to its collapse in 1926—but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A “must-read” (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers “chilling comparisons to the present day” (New York Review of Books).

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1445674769

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Threat to Democracy by Linda Gordon Pdf

By legitimising bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands re-examination today with a more strident, populist and nationalist America.

Author : James H. Madison
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253052193

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The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland by James H. Madison Pdf

"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be comforting to think so, but how then did they become one of the most powerful political forces in our nation's history? In The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, renowned historian James H. Madison details the creation and reign of the infamous organization. Through the prism of their operations in Indiana and the Midwest, Madison explores the Klan's roots in respectable white protestant society. Convinced that America was heading in the wrong direction because of undesirable "un-American" elements, Klan members did not see themselves as bigoted racist extremists but as good Christian patriots joining proudly together in a righteous moral crusade. The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland offers a detailed history of this powerful organization and examines how, through its use of intimidation, religious belief, and the ballot box, the ideals of Klan in the 1920s have on-going implications for America today.

Author : Sara Bullard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0788170317

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The Ku Klux Klan by Sara Bullard Pdf

Author : Richard K. Tucker
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041126512

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The Dragon and the Cross by Richard K. Tucker Pdf

In the early 1920s there were about 250,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Their principal organizer, and the man who profited most from their membership fees, was D.C. Stephenson, a mysterious drifter with a shady background who arrived in Indiana in 1920 with political experience and an acute sense of the showmanship required for political success, but no beliefs. He used his skills to move to the forefront of the Klan boom. But Stephenson's 1925 murder conviction, stemming from a bizarre and inebriated episode of abduction and rape, ended support for the Klan in Indiana, and discredited many of the state's political leaders. These two books, written for a general audience, tell the story of the rise and fall of the Indiana Klan and Stephenson. Tucker's book ventures more theoretical speculation about the Klan in the North, though he doesn't advance any sustained argument other than to stress, correctly, the Klan's anti-Catholicism. But Tucker exaggerates the Klan's hegemony and gives neither a real sense of the climate and the struggles of the time nor a convincing portrait of Stephenson, who remains a shadowy figure. Lutholtz's thorough book, though it has a sharper focus on Stephenson and Indiana, portrays the political struggles more completely. What is most pertinent is the picture that emerges of the quiet force of bigotry rather than overt Klan power. But Lutholtz resists all theory, so any conclusions about the broader relevance of the strange and fascinating story of Stephenson and the Indiana Klan in the 1920s will have to be drawn by the reader. Lutholtz's book is for larger public library collections.

Author : James M. Pitsula
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774824910

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Keeping Canada British by James M. Pitsula Pdf

The Ku Klux Klan had its origins in the American South. It was suppressed but rose again in the 1920s, spreading into Canada, especially Saskatchewan. This book offers a new interpretation for the appeal of the Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan. It argues that the Klan should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance but as a populist aftershock of the Great War – and a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion that wanted to keep Canada British. Through its meticulous exploration of a controversial issue central to the history of Saskatchewan and the formation of national identity, this book shines light upon a dark corner of Canada’s past.

Author : John C. Lester,Daniel Love Wilson
Publisher : Nashville, Tenn. : Wheeler, Osborn & Duckworth Manufacturing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924083530265

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Ku Klux Klan by John C. Lester,Daniel Love Wilson Pdf

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445674773

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Threat to Democracy by Linda Gordon Pdf

By legitimising bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands re-examination today with a more strident, populist and nationalist America.