Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History by Linda Gordon

Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History

Linda Gordon

288 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged preconceptions of hooded Klansmen, who through violence and lynching had established a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South. Responding...

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