They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group / by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2010Description: iv, 172 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN: 9780618440337; 061844033XOther title: Birth of an American terrorist groupSubject(s): Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) -- Juvenile literature | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Juvenile literature | Racism -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature | Hate groups -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 322.4/20973 LOC classification: HS2330.K63 | B37 2010| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Main Library | HS2330 .K63 B37 2010 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | 1 | Available | STACKS | 51952000128045 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-168) and index.
Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.
A note to the reader -- "Bottom rail top" -- "Boys, let us get up a club" -- "I was killed at Chickamauga" -- "Worms would have been eating me now -- "They say a man ought not to vote" -- "I am going to die on this land" -- "A whole race trying to go to school" -- "They must have somebody to guide them" -- "Forced by force, to use force" -- "The sacredness of the human person" -- Epilogue : "it tuck a long time" -- Civil rights time line.
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