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-10
0742550788
ISBN-13
9780742550780
eBay Product ID (ePID)
67748920
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Anzahl der Seiten
286 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Publikationsname
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, And The Ku Klux Klan
Produktart
Lehrbuch
Autor
J. Michael Martinez
Reihe
The American Crisis Series: Books On The Civil War Era
Format
Taschenbuch
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Paperback
Item Height
1cm
Item Length
22cm
Item Width
15cm
Item Weight
418g
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