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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 - Chalmers, David, Professor
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David Chalmers, the leading historian of the Ku Klux Klan, brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up to date. 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 ...

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Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement 2005, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780742523111

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Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement 2003, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780742523104

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