K.K.K. FRIEND OR FOE: WHICH?

USA: BLAINE MAST, 1924 NICE LOOKING DARK BROWN COVER. GOLD PRINT WITH WHITE CROSS FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SAM RICH THE IMPERIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA, KNIGHTS OF KU KLUX KLAN WROTE INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK. MAST WROTE THE BOOK TO HELP CLEAR UP MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND MISINFORMATION. FOREWARD WRITTEN IN KITTANNING PENNSYLVANIA. THIS BOOK HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE KKK AND HOW THEY PERCIEVED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS PERCIEVED THEM. A VERY EDUCATIONAL BOOK AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO THOSE INTERESTED IN THE KKK. HISTORY HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE PAST AND HOW WE CAN KEEP FROM MAKING CERTAIN MISTAKES IN THE FUTURE. Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party's Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal—the reestablishment of white supremacy—fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s. After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.