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Autore: | McVeigh Rory |
Titolo: | The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics / / Rory McVeigh |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
Disciplina: | 322.4 |
322.4/20973 | |
322.420973 | |
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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 | |
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.: | 9910815530103321 |
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