The Klan

An update of a 1978 study of the Ku Klux Klan, based upon two years of research and interviews with Klanspeople and their victims, offering insight into the thought processes that give rise to hate groups and paramilitary organizations.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Entering the invisible empire -- Dale Reusch: tossing his hood into the ring -- Signs of the times -- Bob Jones: the tattooed dragon -- At the filling station -- Robert Scoggin: inside the Klavern -- Ed Dawson: a few regrets -- Day the Klan returned to Pulaski -- Poet -- Robert Shelton: the salesman -- G T Miller: taking on the Klan -- Ira DeMent: the defender -- Birmingham bombings -- Warning -- David Duke: the image maker -- Bogalusa: a battle ground revisited -- Agent -- White knights of Mississippi -- Tommy Tarrants: a repentant rebel -- James Venable: the wizard of stone mountain -- Calvin Craig: once a Klansman -- Maryland: the struggles within -- Bill Chaney: the purple robe -- Glossary -- People of Klan country -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations follow page 112.

1. Entering the invisible empire -- 2. Dale Reusch: tossing his hood into the ring -- 3. Signs of the times -- 4. Bob Jones: the tattooed dragon -- 5. At the filling station -- 6. Robert Scoggin: inside the klavern -- 7. Ed Dawson: a few regrets -- 8. The day the Klan returned to Pulaski -- 9. The poet -- 10. Robert Shelton: the salesman -- 11. G. T. Miller: taking on the Klan -- 12. Ira DeMent: the defender -- 13. The Birmingham bombings -- 14. The warning -- 15. David Duke: the image maker -- 16. Bogalusa: a battleground revisited -- 17. The agent -- 18. The white knights of Mississippi -- 19. Tommy Terrants: a repentant rebel -- 20. James Venable: the wizard of stone mountain -- 21. Calvin Craig: once a klansman -- 22. Maryland: the struggles within -- 23. Bill Chaney: the purple robe.