Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement
- Title
- Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers.
- Published by
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 207 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Alternative title
- How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement
- Subject
- Contents
- The challenges of the 1960s -- Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision -- Bombingham -- Friends in high places : George Wallace -- Freedom riding -- The long hot summer -- Mississippi -- Selma -- Making the justice system work -- Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi -- Decline -- Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the black Jesus -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 1970s -- Death in Greensboro -- David Duke steps forward -- Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons -- The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda : Patrick J. Buchanan.
- Call number
- Sc E 03-745
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.
- Author
- Chalmers, David Mark.
- Title
- Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.
- LCCN
- 2002014655
- ISBN
- 0742523101 (acid-free)
- Research call number
- Sc E 03-745