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" Backfire : "
David Chalmers.
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950758
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b705128
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Chalmers, David Mark.
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Backfire : : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement /\ David Chalmers.
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Lanham, Md. :: Rowman & Littlefield,, ©2003.
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viii, 207 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0742523101
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: 074252311X
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: 9780742523104
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: 9780742523111
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The challenges of the 1960s -- Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision -- Bombingham -- Friends in high places : George Wallace -- Freedom riding -- The long hot summer -- Mississippi -- Selma -- Making the justice system work -- Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi -- Decline -- Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the Black Jesus -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 70s -- Death in Greensboro -- David Duke steps forward -- Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons -- The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda, Patrick J. Buchanan.
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"In Backfire, the leading historian of the Ku Klux Klan brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up-to-date. David Chalmers tells the stories of Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, David Duke, and Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and follows the forty-year struggle to punish Klan murderers through the courts of Alabama, Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In his analysis, Chalmers shows how Klan violence actually aided the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and helped revolutionize the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights."
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"While focused on the Klan's activities in the twentieth-century, Backfire also looks beyond the abuses of the past. Through an examination of groups like the neo-Nazis, Aryan Nations, Christian Identity, and the Patriot Movement, Chalmers explores the new face of the white supremacist Right."--Jacket.
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
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Ku-Klux-Klan
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Civil rights movements-- United States.
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Racism-- United States-- History.
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15.85 history of America.
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Bürgerrechtsbewegung
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Civil rights movements.
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Race relations.
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Racism.
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Rassismus
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Burgerrechten.
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Civil Rights Movement.
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Ku Klux Klan.
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United States, Race relations.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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323/.0973
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HS2330.K63C487 2003
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15.85bcl
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363.973z
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MS 3530rvk
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| Parallel Title
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How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement
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