Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chalmers, David Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

United States.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

History.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Summary:

In this thought-provoking volume, the nation's leading historian on the Ku Klux Klan updates the story of America's oldest terrorist society. Chalmers skillfully illustrates how the Klan's violence in the 1960s indirectly aided in the civil rights movement and revolutionized the role of national government regarding the protection of civil rights. 8 photos.

Contents:

The challenges of the 1960s

Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision

Bombingham

Friends in high places : George Wallace

Freedom riding

The long hot summer

Mississippi

Selma

Making the justice system work

Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi

Decline

Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the black Jesus

Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 1970s

Death in Greensboro

David Duke steps forward

Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center

Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons

The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda : Patrick J. Buchanan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.

ISBN:

0742523101

OCLC:

50604842