They Called Themselves the K.K.K
The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Format: Book
Description: 172 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Teen literature.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Teen literature.
Racism -- United States -- History -- Teen literature.
Hate groups -- United States -- History -- Teen literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Teen literature.
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Teen literature.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Teen literature.
Racism -- United States -- History -- Teen literature.
Hate groups -- United States -- History -- Teen literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Teen literature.
Target Audience: 1180L
ISBN:
9780618440337
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T HISTORY Bar | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Nonfiction | In |
T SOCIAL SCI Bar | St. Andrews Indoors | Teen Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [162]-168) and index.