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Author Parsons, Elaine Frantz, 1970- author.

Title Ku-Klux : the birth of the Klan during Reconstruction / Elaine Frantz Parsons.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Note "This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The roots of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee -- Ku-Klux attacks define a new black and white manhood -- Ku-Klux attacks define Southern public life -- The Ku-Klux in the national press -- Ku-Klux skepticism and denial in Reconstruction-era public discourse -- Race and violence in Union County, South Carolina -- The Union County Ku-Klux in national discourse.
Summary "The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North" -- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) (OCoLC)fst01801131
Domestic terrorism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations.
Domestic terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01737469
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Parsons, Elaine Frantz, 1970- author. Ku-Klux 9781469625423 (DLC) 2015026763 (OCoLC)906234528
ISBN 9781469625447 (electronic bk.)
146962544X (electronic bk.)
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