Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement
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Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement
Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First paperback edition 2005"--T.p. verso
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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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Challenges of the 1960s
Chapter 2: Laissez-Faire, Violence, & Confusion after the School Decision
Chapter 3: Bombingham
Chapter 4: Friends in High Places: George Wallace
Chapter 5: Freedom Riding
Chapter 6: The Long Hot Summer
Chapter 7: Mississippi
Chapter 8: Selma
Chapter 9: Making the Justice System Work
Chapter 10: Klansmen on Trial & the Klan's Campaign of Terror against the Jews of Mississippi
Chapter 11: Decline
Chapter 12: Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the Black Jesus
Chapter 13: Confrontation, Poor-Boy Politics, & Revival in the Late 1970s
Chapter 14: Death in Greensboro
Chapter 15: David Duke Steps Forward
Chapter 16: Klan Hunters: Morris Dees & The Southern Poverty Law Center
Chapter 17: Yesterday, Today, Forever: Klansmen, Klanswomen, Terrorists, & Loose Cannons
Chapter 18: The "Fifth Era": An Explosion on the Right—Coda: Patrick J. Buchanan
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