"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The roots of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee -- Ku-Klux attacks define a new black and white manhood -- Ku-Klux attacks define Southern public life -- The Ku-Klux in the national press -- Ku-Klux skepticism and denial in Reconstruction-era public discourse -- Race and violence in Union County, South Carolina -- The Union County Ku-Klux in national discourse.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North"--
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JSTOR
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OverDrive, Inc.
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22573/ctt14r86v9
Stock Number
8C3D9D5F-9442-4BD8-8BA9-556624B5A81A
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Title
Ku-Klux
International Standard Book Number
9781469625423
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Domestic terrorism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Racism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Domestic terrorism.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Advocacy.