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Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2011]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > History > 20th century.
Alabama > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Alabama > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Willie's first day
  • The legacy of Willie Edwards
  • Klan on trial
  • Hound-dog determined
  • "Fight everything segregated"
  • The making of a segregationist
  • The pair from Howard
  • "Segregation forever!"
  • Education of a liberal
  • Country-boy lawyer
  • The Alabama story
  • Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson
  • Don Quixote of the South
  • The Southern courier
  • The rise of John Hulett
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
  • The people's attorney general
  • Breaking the Klan
  • "Forgive me, for I have sinned'
  • "Like a mighty stream."