...Lynn Dumenil Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan . New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. $30 (cloth). Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 Revising the Klan: Intersections...

... became union organizers in textile mills and hospitals. Many of us, myself included, were members of the Communist Workers Party. On that fate- ful day, we wanted to protest the 1979 reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in areas of North Carolina in which union drives were in progress. We planned...

... of the Western Hemisphere in the 1970s and 1980s, from Pinochet and Ronald Reagan to Central American death squads and a resurgent Ku Klux Klan. 5 Dealing with issues ranging from police brutality to border enforcement, US Latina/o/x activists found themselves and their allies repeatedly on the defensive...

... urbanismo . Havana. G155.C9L6 , Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami , Coral Gables, FL . MacLean Nancy . 1994 . Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan . New York : Oxford University Press . Maribona Armando . 1942 . Turismo y ciudadanía...

... colleagues of Robert Williams and the armed black community in Monroe, North Carolina. To Sayer, the success of armed patrols in Monroe in repelling Klan vio- lence suggested armed black resistance would not necessarily lead to the massacres forecast by Hall...

... In the years following the Civil War, Congress launched a wide-ranging investigation into Ku Klux Klan violence, taking volumi- nous and harrowing testimony. But these investigations were carried out not in a dialect of contrition and confession, but with the full-throated self-confidence...

... of the Ku Klux Klan murders. The book was hon- ored by the American Librarian Association and granted the Creative Achievement Award by Brooklyn College. She coedited Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox (2002), which includes her chapter on violence and the U.S. civil rights movement. She...

... grandfather, a worn, thin red book-his IWW 1.D.-hung from a string, his name scrawled inside. ”Why did Grandpa take you all to Texas?” I’d ask. ”Danged Klan ran us off, some of them same folks you see in church on Sunday. They’re pretty brave when they got sheets over their heads. Nothing...

... men from one particular neighborhood attacked a public Ku Klux Klan meeting held at a right- wing evangelical Protestant church on the other side of town. The purpose of their public history project is to uncover the tissue of feel- ing behind that incident. The community residents...

..., namely the introduction and the chapter titled “Pilot, Senator, and Judge,” and a chapter from Nancy McLean’s book Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan . 3 Once we start reading It Can’t Happen Here , however, class discussion focuses only on the novel...

... the critics of Congressional Reconstruction have won a sympathetic hearing from white historians of libertarian inclinations. Sponsors of the Klan and White Leagues rallied under the benign bannem of "civil government," "home rule," government by "men of intellect and property," and "universal...

... the floodgates for a tide of white terror that sweeps across South Carolina. At the plantation, Black and white families move into the deserted manor house to meet an attack by the Ku Klux Klan, which burns the mansion to the ground. None of its inhabitants survives...

... in her Reporter essay was to translate the Mau Mau into terms that Americans could appreciate. Near the start of her article on Kenyatta’s trial, she noted that the Europeans in the colony called the Mau Mau “ ‘the African Stern Gang’ or sometimes a ‘Ku Klux Klan in reverse.’ ”57 The Stern Gang...

....” What is less well known is that the screening had been arranged by Thomas Dixon, a Johns Hopkins grad school chum of Wilson’s and the author of the even more racist novel, The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, which provided the basis for D...

... this downwardly mobile doll joins the Young Communist League or a Klan auxiliary. A New York Times article in January took the addition of Kit to the popular American Doll collection as yet another “economic indicator” of the recent down- turn, all...

...”), and commitment to “A United Negro Front.” Most importantly for the “black masses,” the Brotherhood vowed “the fostering of Race Self-Respect” and “Organized and Uncompromising Opposition to the Ku Klux Klan.” 66 Much like the Guardian ’s Monroe Rogers protest in 1902 and the Liberty League’s presentation...

... way to one of the Ku Klux Klan and to prints evoking popuIar memories of the Civil War. The accompanying text emphasizes that emancipation was far from complete and that the struggle continues Important issues are raised in this concluding section but in so little space that Foner...

... Tree, was a fiction. More than that, he revealed that this "gentle memoir" of a Cherokee Indian's childhood was actually THE ABUSABLE PAST/151 the invention of Asa Earl Carter, who until at least 1973 had been a "Ku Klux Klan terrorist, right-wing radio...

... was supplemented by vigilantism which-whether fostered by the Ku Klux Klan of recon- struction days or lynch mobs of later years-bypassed slow procedures in favor of exemplary and intimidating punishments. Vigilantism was a perverse embodiment of the American democratic ideology's faith in the people...

... right under the eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. Lessons abound in the ways that oppressed peoples may organize to effect social change. The noted social- change educator Herbert Kohl includes Remembering Jim Crow in his suggested curriculum as a way to teach that the “struggle for civil rights and black...