THIS BOOK TELLS THE SHOCKING STORY of this long forgotten chapter in American history-the story of THE UNION LEAGUE, WASHINGTON'S KKK. The "official" version of Southern Reconstruction is that there was a reign of terror - a systematic murder and intimidation by the "white Southern ruling class" who were determined to keep free people of colour in a virtual state of slavery. The real picture is a good deal more complicated. One can find plenty of material about conflict, intimidation, and killing in America during the period 1865-1877; but the Marxist class conflict formulary of history -...
THIS BOOK TELLS THE SHOCKING STORY of this long forgotten chapter in American history-the story of THE UNION LEAGUE, WASHINGTON'S KKK. The "official" ...
MOST PEOPLE KNOW something of Jim Crow and the segregated South - even if only from melodramatic television and cinematic depictions. Few, however, know how it came into being. The antebellum South was not racially segregated. It was a race-conscious society to be sure, but it was not segregated. How did this post-war social arrangement come into being? Was it a spontaneous codification of Southern racism or can its origins be found elsewhere? In SEGREGATION, New York playwright and historian John Chodes makes the case that segregation was imported from and imposed on the South by the...
MOST PEOPLE KNOW something of Jim Crow and the segregated South - even if only from melodramatic television and cinematic depictions. Few, however, kn...
