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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781189203321

Autore

McVeigh Rory

Titolo

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics / / Rory McVeigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8166-6776-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Collana

Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; 32

Disciplina

322.4

322.4/20973

322.420973

366

Soggetti

Right-wing extremists - United States - History - 20th century

Social movements - United States - History - 20th century

Racism - United States - History - 20th century

Political culture - United States - History - 20th century

United States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century

United States Politics and government 1913-1921

United States Politics and government 1921-1923

United States Politics and government 1923-1929

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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