Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.

They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group / They called themselves the Ku Klux Klan. by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. - 172 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-168) and index.

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" -- Civil rights time line.

Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.

ISBN: 9780618440337 061844033X

LCCN: 2009045247

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Racism--History.--United States
Hate groups--History.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Race relations.

LC Class. No.: HS2330.K63 / B37 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 322.4/2/0973