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Black resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the wake of the Civil War
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Black resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the wake of the Civil War / Kwando M. Kinshasa.
ISBN
0786424672 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)
Published
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
Physical Description
ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Summary
"Focusing on the years of the Reconstruction, this volume examines the actions of the Ku Klux Klan between the years of 1865 and 1899. It explores how the organization sponsored and promoted violence against former slaves, and how that violence eventually led to the formation of armed defensive units, which in some instances engaged in retaliatory action"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 02, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.
Contents
Things fall apart
The interminable conflict
Dialogues on human rights abuses
Themes on racial conflict
Organized resistance
Literary provocateur : a case study of John A. Leland
A planter's letter to the New York times
Excerpt from The prostrate state by James Pike
Testimony of Elias Thomson regarding Klan activity
Remarks of Judge Hugh Bond regarding Klan activity
Excerpt from the oral history of Mary Anderson
"The Lowrey bandits"
Letter from General John C. Gorman regarding the Lowrie bandits.
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