Produktinformation
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.Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-100742550788
ISBN-139780742550780
eBay Product ID (ePID)67748920
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
VerlagRowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr2007
Anzahl der Seiten286 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
PublikationsnameCarpetbaggers, Cavalry, And The Ku Klux Klan
ProduktartLehrbuch
AutorJ. Michael Martinez
ReiheThe American Crisis Series: Books On The Civil War Era
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
HörbuchNo
InhaltsbeschreibungPaperback
Item Height1cm
Item Length22cm
Item Width15cm
Item Weight418g