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Inside the Ku Klux Klan
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Brian Tackett |
"This story tells about the events which led up to the burning of the Barren River Baptist Church in Bowling Green Kentucky in the early morning hours of December 6, 1991 ... The history of the Klan … |
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Night fires
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George Edward Stanley |
In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and … |
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Gospel according to the Klan
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Kelly Baker |
To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted i… |
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Circle of fire
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William H. Hooks |
Shortly before Christmas, 1936, eleven-year-old Harrison overhears a notorious local bigot planning a Ku Klux Klan raid on a band of Irish tinkers camped nearby and realizes he must do something to p… |
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Summer battles
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Ann R. Blakeslee |
In the summer of 1926, eleven-year-old Kath visits her grandfather Grando, the only minister in Peaceable, Indiana, and finds him the target of the local Ku Klux Klan because he employs a colored wom… |
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Mississippi morning
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Ruth Vander Zee |
Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan. |
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Stella by starlight
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Sharon M. Draper |
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town. |
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The lynching
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Laurence Leamer |
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most… |
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Mississippi blood
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Greg Iles |
Grief-stricken and with his world collapsing around him, Penn Cage is shut out of trial preparations by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of rev… |
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Black Klansman
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Ron Stallworth |
The true story of Detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who in 1978 went undercover to investigate the KKK. |
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Burden
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Courtney Hargrave |
"A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the international spotli… |
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Devils Walking
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Stanley Nelson |
"After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window,… |
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For the kingdom and the power
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Dale W. Laackman |
"The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke--together, the Southern Publicity Association--met the fervent William Joseph Simmons, saw an opportunity, and play… |
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The Dragon's daughter
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Sharon Honeycutt |
Mariah Baxter only has to make it through two more years in Fountain Park and then she can get away--away from her small town, from the kids at school who hate her, but most of all from her dad who j… |
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Klan-Destine Relationships
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Daryl Davis |
"After 129 years of nothing but violence and hatred, it's time we get to know one another on a social basis, not under a cover of darkness, " explains Grammy Award winning pianist Daryl Davis of his … |
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Bessie Smith and the night riders
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Sue Stauffacher |
Black blues singer Bessie Smith single-handedly scares off Ku Klux Klan members who are trying to disrupt her show one hot July night in Concord, North Carolina. Includes historical note. |
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The Ku Klux Klan
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Fred J. Cook |
Explores the consistent pattern of racial bigotry, religious intolerance, violence, and exploitation by the Klan since its founding in the post-Civil War period. |
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Skeletons
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Kate Wilhelm |
"Lee Donne's family is gifted. Her mother has three doctorates, her father is an economics genius, and her grandfather is a world-renowned Shakespearean scholar. Lee's own gift, if you could call it … |
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You can't do that, Dan Moody!
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Anderson, Ken |
A biography of Dan Moody, governor of Texas in the 1920s, focusing on his fight against the Ku Klux Klan. |
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Back to Mississippi
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Mary Winstead |
"Growing up in Minneapolis, Mary Winstead listened to her father's captivating tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a child, she visited her southern kin, and her nostalgia for that world an… |
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