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Titel: Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan
Zustand: New
EAN: 9780742550780
ISBN: 9780742550780
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Release date: 01/03/2007
Höhe: 232mm
Länge: 155mm
Breite: 17mm
Gewicht: 458g
Autor: J. Michael Martinez
Sprache: Englisch
Subtitle: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction
ISBN-10: 0742550788
Description: In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but they arguably did more than any other person or entity to expose the identity of the Invisible Empire as a group of hooded, brutish, homegrown terrorists. In compiling evidence to prosecute the leading Klansmen and by restoring at least a semblance of order to South Carolina, Merrill and his men demonstrated that the portrayal of the KKK as a chivalric organization was at best a myth, and at worst a lie. This is the story of the rise and fall of the Reconstruction-era Klan, focusing especially on Major Merrill and the Seventh Cavalry's efforts to expose the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan to the light of day.
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Genre: History
Buchreihe: American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
Thematik: Society & Culture, Social Sciences

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