Klan unmasked

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Klan unmasked

Entry/Object ID

Library.2172

Description

285 pages : illustrations: 22 cm Klan unmasked by Stetson Kennedy. The author writes of his experiences as an undercover agent in the KKK after WWII,. This edition has a new introduction by David Pilgrim and a new author's note. Stetson Kennedy is an award-winning author and human rights activist. Kennedy is also known as a pioneering folklorist, a labor activist, and environmentalist. He is the author of the books: Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, The Jim Crow Guide, The Klan Unmasked, and After Appomattox...publisher Originally published as I rode with the Ku Klux Klan by Arco Publishers Ltd.- verso of title page. Contents: Fiery summons -- Why I joined the Klan -- Before the altar of hate -- The Way of the Klavern -- Operation Anti-Klan -- I work my way into the flog squad -- The Klavaliers ride to a fall -- Juvenile delinquents of the KKK -- Assorted nuts -- In Daniel's den -- The Wool-hat putsch -- Bigotry before the bar -- Tri-K round up -- Meeting in Macon -- Terror in Miami -- Night ride in sunny Florida -- Investigating the investigators -- Fire! -- Kluxed again (1990) -- How to Kan the Klan: A Handbook for counterterrorist action (1990). Selected illustrations: Stetson Kennedy in a Klan disguise after being released by Capital police following his unsuccessful attempt in 1946 to interest the House Un-American Activities Committee in his evidence against the KKK -- Stetson in his uniform of the Columbian brownshirt terrorists sometimes called the juvenile delinquents of the KKK -- Diagram showing standard arrangement of outer and inner dens, klavern, seating, officers' stations, sacred altar, flag and fiery cross, etc. -- Stetson shows secret Klan signs at a news conference.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )., Kennedy, Stetson.

Publication Details

Author

Kennedy, Stetson.

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Call No.

HS 2330 .K63 K46 1990

ISBN

9780817356743