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02255aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 1746CBB66B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 160310s2016 gauac 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0881465615 020 $a 9780881465617 035 $a (OCoLC)944242464 040 $a GMU $e rda $c GMU $d GMU $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d SILO 100 1 $a Rawlings, William, $e author. 245 04 $a The second coming of the invisible empire : $b the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s / $c William Rawlings. 264 1 $a Macon, Georgia : $b Mercer University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xiii, 311 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references ([304]-308) and index. 520 $a Fifty years after the end of the Civil War, William Joseph Simmons, a failed Methodist minister, formed a fraternal order that he called The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Organized primarily a money-making scheme, it shared little but its name with the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction Era. This new Klan became, for a brief period of time in the mid-1920s, one of America s most powerful social and political organizations. While often using intimidation and violence against its foes, the Klan was responsible for the election of supportive politicians at all levels of government. Following a disastrous attempt to influence the presidential election of 1924, and with increasing public awareness of the Klan's corrupt and violent nature, the order faltered, becoming a mere wisp of its former self by 1930. 600 10 $a Simmons, W. J. $q (William Joseph), $d 1880-1945. 610 20 $a Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Hate groups $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Social movements $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Political culture $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 20th century. 710 2 $a Mercer University Press. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214014111.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203040743.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1746CBB66B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search