Check It Out! -- Black History Month February 2011
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: the Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Bartoletti examines how the Ku Klux Klan formed and grew after the Civil War. She deftly places the unsettling events into cultural and political context without oversimplifying. Numerous first-person quotes give the book its pulse, and expertly selected stories of people on all sides of the violent conflicts give readers a larger understanding of the conditions that incubated the Klan’s terrorism; how profoundly those involved suffered; and how that legacy of fear, racism, and brutality runs through our own time. Archival images on every page will leave an indelible impression on readers. (from Booklist)
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: the Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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