| Description |
172 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A note to the reader -- "Bottom rail top" -- "Boys, let us get up a club" -- "I was killed at Chickamauga" -- "Worms would have been eating me now -- "They say a man ought not to vote" -- "I am going to die on this land" -- "A whole race trying to go to school" -- "They must have somebody to guide them" -- "Forced by force, to use force" -- "The sacredness of the human person" -- Epilogue : "it tuck a long time" -- Time line of the civil rights movement. |
| Summary |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti examines the beginnings of the Ku Klux Klan, a group that "became a country within a country, a shadow government with its own constitution, leaders, laws, and police-all dedicated to the principle that white people only should control all aspects of government and society." |
| Audience |
Ages 15 & up |
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Grades 10 & up |
| Study Program |
AR RL 9.2 7.0 138631. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Subject |
Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) -- Juvenile literature.
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Ku Klux Klan (1915-) -- Juvenile literature.
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Racism -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Hate groups -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| ISBN |
9780618440337 : 13.95 |
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