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001 2014023632
003 DLC
005 20150501085057.0
008 140617s2014 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014023632
020 $a9780786477746 (pbk. : alkaline paper)
020 $z9781476617190 (ebk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHS2330.K63$bN499 2014
082 00 $a322.4/20973$223
100 1 $aNewton, Michael,$d1951-
245 10 $aWhite robes and burning crosses :$ba history of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866 /$cMichael Newton.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2014]
300 $avii, 306 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "Good ole Rebels" -- "This is a white man's country" (1866/1873) -- Never sound retreat (1874/1914) -- Rebirth of an empire (1915/1921) -- Glory days (1922/1929) -- Depression and decline (1930/1944) -- Fire in the ashes (1945/1953) -- Beyond "Black Monday" (1954/1960) -- The second Reconstruction (1961/1969) -- "Growing and improving all the time" (1970/1982) -- At war with "ZOG" (1983/1995) -- "Yesterday, today, forever" (1996/2014).
520 2 $a"From the Klan's post-Civil War lynchings in support of Jim Crow laws, to its bloody stand against desegregation during the 1960s, to its continued violence in the militia movement at the turn of the 21st century, this revealing volume chronicles the complete history of the world's oldest surviving terrorist organization from 1866 to the present"--$cProvided by publisher.
610 20 $aKu Klux Klan (1915- )$xHistory.
610 20 $aKu Klux Klan (19th century)
650 0 $aDomestic terrorism$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.