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Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers.
| Author/creator | Chalmers, David Mark |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003. |
| Description | viii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement |
| Contents | The challenges of the 1960s -- Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision -- Bombingham -- Friends in high places : George Wallace -- Freedom riding -- The long hot summer -- Mississippi -- Selma -- Making the justice system work -- Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi -- Decline -- Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the black Jesus -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 1970s -- Death in Greensboro -- David Duke steps forward -- Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons -- The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda : Patrick J. Buchanan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002014655 |
| ISBN | 0742523101 (acid-free) |