Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement

by Chalmers, David
ISBN: 9780742523111
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In Backfire: How The Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement, the leading historian of the Ku Klux Klan brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up-to-date. David Chalmers skillfully shows how Klan violence actually aided the civil rights movement of the 1960s and revolutionized the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights. He follows the forty-year struggle to punish Klan murderers through the courts of Alabama, Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center finally found a way to bring the Klan down. As it looks to the future, Backfire examines the emergence of today's violent conspiracies of the white supremacist Right.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Chalmers, David
  • ISBN: 9780742523111
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.72 x 0.62
  • Number Of Pages: 207
  • Publication Year: 2005
Language: English