Bibliograph

Backfire, backfire, how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement, David Chalmers

Type

Label

Backfire, backfire, how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement, David Chalmers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Backfire, backfire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50604842

Responsibility statement

David Chalmers

Sub title

how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement

Table Of Contents

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

resource.variantTitle

How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement

Classification