Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
by Nancy K. MacLean
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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.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1994
- Important places
- Athens, Georgia, USA
- Epigraph
- Back of the writhing, yelling, cruel-eyed demons who break, destroy, maim and lynch and burn at the stake is a knot, large or small, of normal human beings and these human beings at heart are desperately afraid of something. ... (show all)W. E. B. DuBois
- First words
- This book is about the most powerful movement of the far right that America has yet produced: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Perhaps, after all, it was those with the least 'stake in society' who had the most stake in defending democracy.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 322.420975818 — Society, government, & culture Political science Relation of the state to organized groups and their members Political action groups Revolutionary and subversive groups Biography And History North America Southeastern U.S.
- LCC
- HS2330 .K63 .M225 — Social sciences Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. Other societies. By classes Political and "patriotic" societies
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- Czech, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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