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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.

Publication Info. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2011]
©2011

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 G83    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 G83    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  323.1196 GREENHAW    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 GREENHAW    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  323.1196073 GR    Check Shelf
Description xix, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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".
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Alabama -- History.
ISBN 9781569763452 hardcover $26.95
1569763453 hardcover
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