Om amerikanske kvinder som tilsluttede sig Ku Klux Klan i 1920'erne
Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In "Women of the Klan," sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantl…
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In "Women of the Klan," sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantl…
"In The Fiery Cross, Wyn Craig Wade traces the history of the Klan from its beginnings after the Civil War as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, to the present. The reader follows the Klan's resurgence in 1915 after D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation depicted Klan…
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Arrival in New England -- Invasion of the pine tree state -- Confronting franco-americans in maine -- Expansion in the granite state -- Rebuff in the Green Mountain state -- Confronting Irish Catholic politicians in the bay state -- Counteratta…
Om den "nye" Ku Klux Klan, som i 1920'erne forfulgte negre, katolikker, jøder, immigranter og politisk radikale
"During the 1920s the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., rose to power in every part of the United States. Several million members nationwide subscribed to its creed: an animosity toward African Americans, Roman Catholics, foreign immigrants, and ideological ra…
The Ku Klux Klan was re-established in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of 'The Birth of a Nation', D.W. Griffith's paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the litt…
This study investigates the origins of the music produced by the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Indiana as well as trying to understand how it facilitated recruitment into the Klan and how it was used as a tool for wider social and political change. The Indiana Klan’s newspaper The Fiery…