They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group /

They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) > Juvenile literature.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Juvenile literature.
Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Racism > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Hate groups > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Racism > United States > History.
Hate groups > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.