The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics
From the Publisher: Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of the 1920s-era Ku Klux Klan, showing that although the organization continued to promote white supremacy, it also addressed a wide range of social and economic issues, targeting immigrants and Catholics as well as African Americans as dangers to American society. In sharp contrast to earlier studies of the KKK, McVeigh treats the Klan as it saw itself-as a national organization concerned with national issues
Print Book, English, ©2009
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©2009
History
244 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
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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
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