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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Shows how Klan violence actually aided the civil rights movement of the 1960's and revolutionized the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights.
Full Description
In Backfireleading historian of the Ku Klux Klan brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up-to-date. David Chalmers skillfully shows how Klan violence actually aided the civil rights movement of the 1960s and revolutionized the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights. He follows the forty-year struggle to punish Klan murderers through the courts of Alabama, Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center finally found a way to bring the Klan down. As it looks to the future, Backfire examines the emergence of today's violent conspiracies of the white supremacist Right.
Contents
Chapter 1Chapter 2: Laissez-Faire, Violence, & Confusion after the School Decision Chapter 3: Bombingham Chapter 4: Friends in High Places: George Wallace Chapter 5: Freedom Riding Chapter 6: The Long Hot Summer Chapter 7: Mississippi Chapter 8: Selma Chapter 9: Making the Justice System Work Chapter 10: Klansmen on Trial & the Klan's Campaign of Terror against the Jews of Mississippi Chapter 11: Decline Chapter 12: Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the Black Jesus Chapter 13: Confrontation, Poor-Boy Politics, & Revival in the Late 1970s Chapter 14: Death in Greensboro Chapter 15: David Duke Steps Forward Chapter 16: Klan Hunters: Morris Dees & The Southern Poverty Law Center Chapter 17: Yesterday, Today, Forever: Klansmen, Klanswomen, Terrorists, & Loose Cannons Chapter 18: The "Fifth Era": An Explosion on the Right-Coda: Patrick J. Buchanan Essay on Sources
