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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812504903321

Autore

Parsons Elaine Frantz <1970->

Titolo

Ku-Klux : the birth of the Klan during Reconstruction / / Elaine Frantz Parsons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , [2015]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016

©[2015]

ISBN

979-88-908496-1-8

1-4696-2544-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 pages)

Disciplina

322.4/20973

Soggetti

Racism - United States - History - 19th century

Domestic terrorism - United States - History - 19th century

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The roots of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee -- Ku-Klux attacks define a new black and white manhood -- Ku-Klux attacks define Southern public life -- The Ku-Klux in the national press -- Ku-Klux skepticism and denial in Reconstruction-era public discourse -- Race and violence in Union County, South Carolina -- The Union County Ku-Klux in national discourse.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North" --