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Author:

Rawlings, William, author.

Title:

The second coming of the invisible empire : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s / William Rawlings.

Publisher:

Mercer University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 311 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Subject:

Simmons, W. J.--(William Joseph),--1880-1945.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History--20th century.
Racism--United States--History--20th century.
Hate groups--United States--History--20th century.
Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Mercer University Press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ([304]-308) and index.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0881465615
9780881465617

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944242464

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)