The rise of the Ku Klux Klan [[electronic resource] ] : right-wing movements and national politics / / Rory McVeigh
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McVeigh Rory
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The rise of the Ku Klux Klan [[electronic resource] ] : right-wing movements and national politics / / Rory McVeigh
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 322.4 |
| 322.4/20973 | |
| 322.420973 | |
| 366 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The rise of the Ku Klux Klan |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6776-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456625503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; 32.