Author: Dan T. Carter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 1588384829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens’ Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement in the region. In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor’s infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972, few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas, masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name “Forrest” Carter, he published three successful Western novels, including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, which Clint Eastwood made into a widely acclaimed 1976 movie. His last book, The Education of Little Tree (a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood) posthumously became a number one best-seller in 1991. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered “Forrest” Carter’s true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times’ op-ed he exposed Carter’s deception. Although the difficulties of uncovering the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon the project, in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred interviews by the late Anniston newsman, Fred Burger. These recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally brought Asa Carter’s story into focus. Unmasking the Klansman is the result.
Unmasking the Klansman
Author: Dan T. Carter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 1588384829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens’ Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement in the region. In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor’s infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972, few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas, masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name “Forrest” Carter, he published three successful Western novels, including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, which Clint Eastwood made into a widely acclaimed 1976 movie. His last book, The Education of Little Tree (a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood) posthumously became a number one best-seller in 1991. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered “Forrest” Carter’s true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times’ op-ed he exposed Carter’s deception. Although the difficulties of uncovering the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon the project, in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred interviews by the late Anniston newsman, Fred Burger. These recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally brought Asa Carter’s story into focus. Unmasking the Klansman is the result.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 1588384829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens’ Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement in the region. In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor’s infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972, few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas, masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name “Forrest” Carter, he published three successful Western novels, including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, which Clint Eastwood made into a widely acclaimed 1976 movie. His last book, The Education of Little Tree (a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood) posthumously became a number one best-seller in 1991. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered “Forrest” Carter’s true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times’ op-ed he exposed Carter’s deception. Although the difficulties of uncovering the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon the project, in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred interviews by the late Anniston newsman, Fred Burger. These recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally brought Asa Carter’s story into focus. Unmasking the Klansman is the result.
The Klan Unmasked
Author: Stetson Kennedy
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The author, who writes of his experiences as an undercover agent in the KKK after WWII, has added an afterword and new photos to this edition.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The author, who writes of his experiences as an undercover agent in the KKK after WWII, has added an afterword and new photos to this edition.
Unmasking the Klan
Author: B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights movements
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
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Category : Civil rights movements
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Klan Unmasked
Author: William Joseph Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Under the Hood
Author: Worth H. Weller
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Author: Nancy MacLean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195098365
Category : Athens (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195098365
Category : Athens (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion.
The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked
Author: W. C. Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258050160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258050160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Unmasked!
Author: Ann Patton
Publisher: Aplcorps Books LLC
ISBN: 9780983913153
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The dark tale of the roaring '20s KKK. Irony amongst the ashes, as well as a ray of hope that offers illumination for our time.
Publisher: Aplcorps Books LLC
ISBN: 9780983913153
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The dark tale of the roaring '20s KKK. Irony amongst the ashes, as well as a ray of hope that offers illumination for our time.
The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked
Author: Walter Carl Wright
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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The Klan Unmasked
Author: William Joseph Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description