03553nam 2200733Ia 450 991081553010332120200520144314.00-8166-6776-4(CKB)2550000000005142(EBL)471774(OCoLC)646884631(SSID)ssj0000342464(PQKBManifestationID)11252670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342464(PQKBWorkID)10285080(PQKB)11014368(MiAaPQ)EBC471774(MdBmJHUP)muse33056(Au-PeEL)EBL471774(CaPaEBR)ebr10353989(CaONFJC)MIL523401(EXLCZ)99255000000000514220081205d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe rise of the Ku Klux Klan right-wing movements and national politics /Rory McVeigh1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (255 pages)Social movements, protest, and contention ;32Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5620-7 0-8166-5619-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, showingSocial movements, protest, and contention ;32.Right-wing extremistsUnited StatesHistory20th centurySocial movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRacismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1913-1921United StatesPolitics and government1921-1923United StatesPolitics and government1923-1929Right-wing extremistsHistorySocial movementsHistoryRacismHistoryPolitical cultureHistory322.4322.4/20973322.420973366McVeigh Rory824788MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815530103321The rise of the Ku Klux Klan3930878UNINA