C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the count…
"This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation's oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner wh…
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.
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 th…
The nature and objectives of the Ku Klux Klan are revealed in a study of its development and members over one hundred years.
The nature and objectives of the Ku Klux Klan are revealed in a study of its development and members over one hundred years.
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplatio…
A major work of history, investigative journalism that breaks new ground, and personal memoir, Carry Me Home is a dramatic account of the civil rights era's climactic battle in Birmingham, as the movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregati…