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The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics / Rory McVeigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McVeigh, Rory.
- Series:
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; 32.
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right-wing extremists--United States--History--20th century.
- Right-wing extremists.
- Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Social movements.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1913-1921.
- United States--Politics and government--1921-1923.
- United States--Politics and government--1923-1929.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History--20th century.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920's the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the nation's forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era society, the Klan in the 1920's exerted its influence far beyond the South. In The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of 1920's-era KKK, showing
- Contents:
- The Klan as a national movement
- The rebirth of a Klan nation, 1915-1924
- Power devaluation
- Responding to economic change : redefining markets along cultural lines
- National politics and mobilizing "100 percent American" voters
- Fights over schools and booze
- How to recruit a Klansman
- Klan activism across the country
- The Klan's last gasp : campaigning to keep a Catholic out of the White House, 1925-1928
- Conclusion: Right-wing movements, yesterday and today.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-6776-4
- OCLC:
- 646884631
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