Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers.

By: Chalmers, David Mark [author]
Language: English Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]Copyright date: c2003Description: viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0742523101 (acidfree); 9780742523104Other title: How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movementSubject(s): Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) | Civil rights movements -- United States | Racism -- United States -- History | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 323.0973 LOC classification: HS2330.K63 | C487 2003
Contents:
The challenges of the 1960s -- Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision -- Bombingham -- Friends in high places : George Wallace -- Freedom riding -- The long hot summer -- Mississippi -- Selma -- Making the justice system work -- Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi -- Decline -- Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the Black Jesus -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 70s -- Death in Greensboro -- David Duke steps forward -- Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons -- The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda, Patrick J. Buchanan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The challenges of the 1960s -- Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision -- Bombingham -- Friends in high places : George Wallace -- Freedom riding -- The long hot summer -- Mississippi -- Selma -- Making the justice system work -- Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi -- Decline -- Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the Black Jesus -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 70s -- Death in Greensboro -- David Duke steps forward -- Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons -- The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda, Patrick J. Buchanan.

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