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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Ku Klux Klan"”.
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
"The Ku Klux Klan of Williamson County, Illinois, was a vigilante organization to help enforce Prohibition. In this coal miners' country, the hooded order took over a citizens' movement that sought to remove the shameful sobriquet ""Bloody Williamson"" through a moral cleanup of the community. …
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Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
… of the Walosas Club chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan in the suburban Chicago community of Oak Park, Illinois. Through the use of a rare manuscript collection this study provides a glimpse into the daily lives of suburban Klanswomen grappling with changing demographics in the village where …
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Our Duty, Our Rights, Our America: Women in American Nativism 1830 - 1930
… nativist sororities, and the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. It looks at how nativist women used the concepts of Republican Motherhood, woman's moral superiority, and woman's innate patriotism to justify their activities and campaign for woman suffrage.</p>
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The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction
… community rallied around during the days of Ku Klux Klan violence in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Randolph, a leading member of the Republican Party and state senator from Orangeburg County, was assassinated in October 1868. Because of his influence and accomplishments, Randolph became the …
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Booze, Boomtowns, and Burning Crosses: The Turbulent Governorship of Pat M. Neff of Texas, 1921-1925
… oil boomtown of Mexia, and faced the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a political force in Texas. Though often associated with the Klan, Neff did not approve of the organization and worked against it whenever possible. During the Railroad Shopmen's Strike of 1922, Neff stalled the federal government in …
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American Anti-Welfare Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Bucktown
… sent David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989. Interviews explain support and opposition to current Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo's policy suggestion to "end generational welfare" by offering citizens $1000 in …
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Reputation versus Reality: An Oral History of Vidor, Texas
… is a town learning to manage its past with the Ku Klux Klan and the subsequent legacy of racial intolerance it now carries into the twenty-first century. By utilizing oral history, interviews with the residents (current and former) clarify how Vidorians see their past and form a collective …
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Columbus' Combative Editor: Julian LaRose Harris versus The Klan in Georgia, 1921-1929
… the only, newspaper man to openly criticize the Ku Klux Klan for Its program of terror and secrecy. Not only did other Georgia dallies follow his lead, but the local chapter of the Klan disbanded for a time in 1923. Then, in close concert with a New York paper, Harris exposed Georgia's governor, …
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Forces of Prejudice in Oregon 1920-1925
… and bigotry, activated by the presence of the Ku Klux Klan in particular. This unusual phenomenon imprinted an indelible mark on tie people of the state and loft its traces on national legislation and constitutional history.</p> <p>This part of the history of Oregon so ruled by the forces of …
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An ideological criticism of David Duke's rhetoric of racism and exclusion
… Duke, white supremacist, disavowed neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan member, and former Louisiana State Representative. The topics of affirmative action, reverse discrimination, immigration, and welfare were chosen for analysis. Using ideological criticism, this study reveals the role Duke pays in …
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Burning Construction: From a pathogenic etiology to a terrorist ideology, the social construction of arson
… memories of the racial symbolism employed by the Ku Klux Klan. Each case of arson while loosely connected soon fell subject to the same familiar political rhetoric. </p> <p>While widely condemned, the social outcries over perceived arson threats are generally short-lived. Every 'epidemic' is met …
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Behind the Doors of White Supremacy
… The American white supremacy movements of the Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity are deeply rooted in Protestant Christianity and are also responsible for some of the gravest acts of violence on American soil. The intersection between religious belief and terrorist action illuminates the …
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'What Colour are You?': FBI Counter-Intelligence and the Targeting of White Hate and Black Extremist Groups in the 1960s
… Panther Party and White Hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. With a mandate to neutralize the activities and minimize the risk of violence posed by the targeted organizations, COINTELPRO was one of the largest and most invasive domestic counter-intelligence programs ever run in the United …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
… images lash-scarred backs of enslaved people and Ku Klux Klan members threatening Black families in their homes. The findings illustrated the defense of antebellum culture and the Confederacy, which have considerable consequences for 21st-century society. The study's findings have implications for …
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… Republican Party valued black support. The Ku Klux Klan was expelled from the state by 1927. More significantly, Kansas funded "Separate but Equal" schools that were truly equal. They educated a generation of local black activists who contested school segregation, police brutality, and white …
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Greek immigration to, and settlement in, central Illinois, 1880-1930
… this period, especially the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, and how Greek immigrants in these small towns responded to this prejudice and bigotry. Finally, Chapter Six looks at the lives and businesses of the individual Greek immigrants to central Illinois. In my conclusion I address the …
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Between North and South: the politics of race in Jim Crow Memphis
… white political interests could unite to run the Ku Klux Klan out of town. However, it was also a city where black political opposition to white supremacy provoked swift and aggressive retaliation from the city government and police. Memphis was a place where the government promoted black …
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The congressional struggle to create a separate department of education, 1918-1930
… the decade. Nativist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, were instrumental in the passage of such anti-parochial school legislation as the Oregon School Act of 1922. Parochial school officials, responding to a real or imagined threat to their educational system, resisted all reform measures …
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