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Citizen klansmen
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ISBN: 0807863491 9780807863497 0807819816 9780807819814 9798890868572 Year: 1991 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s. Using a unique set of Klan membership documents, quantitative analysis, and a variety of other sources, Leonard Moore provides the first comprehensive analysis of the social characteristics and activities of the Indiana Klan membership and thereby reveals the nature of the group's political support. Challenging traditional assumptions about the Klan, Moore argues that in Indiana the organization represented an extraordinarily wide cross section of white Protestant society. More than 25 percent of native-born men in the state became official members. Indeed, the Klan was many times larger than any of the veterans' organizations that flourished in Indiana at the same time and was even larger than the Methodist church, the state's leading Protestant denomination. The Klan's enormous popularity, says Moore, cannot be explained solely by the group's appeal to nativist sentiment and its antagonism toward ethnic minorities. Rather, the Klan gained wide-spread support in large part because of its response to popular discontent with changing community relations and values, problems of Prohibition enforcement, and growing social and political domination by elites. Moreover, Moore shows that the Klan was seen as an organization that could promote traditional comunity values through social, civic, and political activities. It was, he argues, a movement primarily concerned not simply with persecuting ethnic minorities but with promoting the ability of average citizens to influence the workings of soiciety and government. Thus, Moore concludes, the Klan of the 1920s may not have been as much a backward-looking aberration as it was an important example of one of the powerful popular responses to social conditions in twentieth-century America.


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The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest
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ISBN: 0813161975 9780813161976 081315104X 9780813151045 0813183332 9780813183336 Year: 1965 Publisher: [Lexington, Kentucky] : The University Press of Kentucky,

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This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society -- the Ku Klux Klan -- and that eruption of nativism, racism and moral authoritarianism during the 1920's in the four states of the Southwest -- Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas -- in which the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a changing social order and restore familiar orthodox traditions of morality. Entering the Southwest during the post-World War I period of discontent


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Everyday klansfolk
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ISBN: 1628950706 1609171357 9781609171353 9781628960709 1628960701 9780870139956 0870139959 Year: 2011 Publisher: East Lansing Michigan State University Press

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In 1920s Middle America, the Ku Klux Klan gained popularity not by appealing to the fanatical fringes of society, but by attracting the interest of average citizens. During this period, the Klan recruited members through the same unexceptional channels as any other organization or club, becoming for many a respectable public presence, a vehicle for civic activism, or the source of varied social interaction. Its diverse membership included men and women of all ages, occupations, and socio-economic standings. Although surviving membership records of this clandestine organization have proved incredibly rare, Everyday Klansfolk uses newly available documents to reconstruct the life and social context of a single grassroots unit in Newaygo County, Michigan. A fascinating glimpse behind the mask of America's most notorious secret order, this absorbing study sheds light on KKK activity and membership in Newaygo County, and in Michigan at large, during the brief and remarkable peak years of its mass popular appeal.


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Keeping Canada British
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ISBN: 0774824913 0774824905 0774824891 9780774824910 9780774824897 9780774824927 0774824921 9780774824903 Year: 2013 Publisher: Vancouver UBC Press

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This provocative book provides a new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan, arguing that it should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance but as a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion that wanted to keep Canada British.

Behind the mask of chivalry
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ISBN: 0199879400 0585327866 1602560625 1280451475 0198023650 9780585327860 9780195098365 0195098366 9781280451478 0195072340 9780195072341 0195098366 9786610451470 6610451478 9780203427255 0203427254 9780198023654 0197711677 9780199879403 9781602560628 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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The is the story of the evolution of the Athens, Georgia, chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the decade following World War I, when Klan influence peaked in America. It explores the interconnected social issues of race, class and sex, and how these forces combined to create such a brutal organization.


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Democracy, dialogue, and community action
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ISBN: 1283891204 161075509X 9781610755092 9781283891202 9781557289919 1557289913 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fayetteville


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White robes, silver screens
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ISBN: 9780253018489 025301848X 9780253018434 0253018439 9780253018366 0253018366 0813571359 9780813571355 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington


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White robes, silver screens : movies and the making of the Ku Klux Klan
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ISBN: 9780253018366 0253018366 9780253018434 0253018439 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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