| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) |
| Contents |
The Klan in 1920s society -- Building a white, protestant community -- Defining Americanism: white supremacy and anti-Catholicism -- Learning Americanism: the Klan and public schools -- Dry Americanism: prohibition, law, and culture -- The problem of hooded violence -- The search for political influence and the collapse of the Klan movement -- Echoes |
| Summary |
In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national politics. But the hooded bubble burst at mid-decade, and the social movement that had attracted several million members and additional millions of sympathizers collapsed into insignificance. Since the 1990s, intensive community-based historical studies have reinterpreted the 1920s Klan. Rather than the violent, racist extremists of popular lore and current observation, 1920s Klansmen appear in thes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
|
| SUBJECT |
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) fast |
|
Ku-Klux-Klan gnd |
|
Ku-Klux-Klan. idszbz |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
|
|
Racism
|
|
Social conditions
|
| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140516
|
| Subject |
United States
|
|
USA
|
|
USA.
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2011008672 |
| ISBN |
9781566639224 |
|
1566639220 |
|
9786613213990 |
|
6613213993 |
|
1283213990 |
|
9781283213998 |
|
