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The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics Volume 32 Paperback - 2009

by Rory McVeigh

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Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920s

In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the nation's forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era society, the Klan in the 1920s exerted its influence far beyond the South.

In The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of 1920s-era KKK, showing that although the organization continued to promote white supremacy, it also addressed a surprisingly wide range of social and economic issues, targeting immigrants and, particularly, Catholics, as well as African Americans, as dangers to American society. In sharp contrast to earlier studies of the KKK, which focus on the local or regional level, McVeigh treats the Klan as it saw itself--as a national organization concerned with national issues. Drawing on extensive research into the Klan's national publication, the Imperial Night-Hawk, he traces the ways in which Klan leaders interpreted national issues and how they attempted--and finally failed--to influence national politics.

More broadly, in detailing the Klan's expansion in the early 1920s and its collapse by the end of the decade, McVeigh ultimately sheds light on the dynamics that fuel contemporary right-wing social movements that similarly blur the line between race, religion, and values.

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  • Title The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics Volume 32
  • Author Rory McVeigh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
  • Publication date 2009-05-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780816656202 / 0816656207
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations - Political, Political culture - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008052973
  • Dewey Decimal Code 322.420

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  • Choice, 03/01/2010, Page 0
  • Multicultural Review, 12/01/2009, Page 64
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2009, Page 144

About the author

Rory McVeigh is associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.

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