One hundred percent American : the rebirth and decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s /
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 sever...
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Klan in 1920s society
- 2: Building a white Protestant community
- 3: Defining Americanism: white supremacy and anti-Catholicism
- 4: Learning Americanism: the Klan and public schools
- 5: Dry Americanism: prohibition, law, and culture
- 6: Problem of hooded violence: moral vigilantism, enemies, and provocation
- 7: Search for political influence and the collapse of the Klan movement
- 8: Echoes
- Afterword: Historians and the Klan
- Notes
- Index
- Note on the author.