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Author:

Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-

Title:

Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama / Wayne Greenhaw.

Publisher:

Lawrence Hill Books,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xix, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Alabama--History--20th century.
Alabama--History--History--20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Alabama--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index.

Contents:

Willie's first day -- The legacy of Willie Edwards -- Klan on trial -- Hound-dog determined -- "Fight everything segregated" -- The making of a segregationist -- The pair from Howard -- "Segregation forever!" -- Education of a liberal -- Country-boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The Southern courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream".

ISBN:

1569763453 (hardcover)
9781569763452 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)617445932

LCCN:

2010030114

Locations:

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

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)