About This Book
The author assembles a series of historical sketches that trace the rise, causes, and operations of the Ku Klux Klan in the postwar South, combining eyewitness testimony with anecdotal scenes. Chapters survey political and social conditions that produced secret vigilante bands, describe initiation rites, costumes, hierarchy, and methods of intimidation and raid, and recount interactions with organizations representing newly enfranchised Black citizens as well as official responses. The work also treats local case studies, superstition and public perception, and offers moral and political commentary on how clandestine violence affected community life during Reconstruction.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"'Tis Sixty Years Since" / Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913
by Charles Francis Adams
"1683-1920" / The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics
by Frederick Franklin Schrader
"America for Americans!" / The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon
by John Philip Newman
"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message / With his own words which have won thousands for Christ
by William T. Ellis
"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
"Broke," The Man Without the Dime
by Edwin A. Brown