TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rawlings,William
ED  - Mercer University Press.
TI  - The second coming of the invisible empire: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s 
SN  - 9780881465617
AV  - HS2330.K63 R39 2016
U1  - 322.4/2097309042 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Macon, Georgia
PB  - Mercer University Press
KW  - Simmons, W. J.
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - Hate groups
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-308) and index
N2  - Fifty years after the end of the Civil War, William Joseph Simmons, a failed Methodist minister, formed a fraternal order that he called The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Organized primarily as a money-making scheme, it shared little but its name with the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction Era.  This new Klan became, for a brief period of time in the mid-1920s, one of America's most powerful social and political organizations.  While often using intimidation and violence against its foes, the Klan was responsible for the election of supportive politicians at all levels of government.  Following a disastrous attempt to influence the presidential election of 1924, and with increasing public awareness of the Klan's corrupt and violent nature, the order faltered, becoming a mere wisp of its former self by 1930
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