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Suggestions
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The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan
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Taylor,
Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans
in the American West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton and
Company, 1998. |
Survey history of African Americans
in the West by the leading authority.
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Tamura,
Linda. The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese
Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. Urbana:
University of Illinois, 1993. |
A
study of first-generation Japanese immigrants in Oregon.
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MacLean,
Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second
Ku Klux Klan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. |
A
study of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s in Athens, Georgia.
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Gerlach,
Larry. Blazing Crosses In Zion: The Ku Klux Klan in Utah.
Logan: Utah State University Press, 1982. |
A
study of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s in Utah.
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Goldberg,
Robert. Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. |
A study of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
in Colorado.
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Blee,
Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s.
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. |
A
study of women in the Ku Klux Klan.
More Books of Interest
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Lay,
Shawn, ed. The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New History
of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1992. |
A
series of essays on the Ku Klux Klan in the West.
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Bridges,
Tyler. The Rise of David Duke.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. |
The
story of a contemporary racist and former Klansmen and his political
successes and failures.
Film and Video
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The
Birth of a Nation.
Directed by D.W. Griffith. 159m. 1915. Videorecording. |
Griffith’s
landmark, yet racist film about two families during the Civil War
and Reconstruction. Available
in Knight Library.
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Blood
in the Face.
Produced & directed by Ann Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, and James Ridgeway.
77m. 1991. Videorecording. |
Documents
behind-the-scenes activities and individual philosophies and views
of members of the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan movement, Nazi skinheads and
Neo-nazis. Available
in Knight Library.
Web Sites
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The
Intelligence Project (formerly Klanwatch) |
A
group founded by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1981 to monitor
white supremacist and extremist activity in the United States.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp
Put Yourself There:
Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts
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Horowitz,
David A. Inside the Klavern: The Secret
History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. |
Recently
published minutes and papers of the LaGrande, Oregon, chapter of the
KKK.
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Papers
of the NAACP. 7 reels [Part 12, reels 1-7 of an ongoing
collection] (MICROFORM E 185.61 .P27 1982. Series D: The West). |
Papers
from the organization designed to combat such forces in American society
as the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ku
Klux Klan, Tillamook Collection.
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A
collection of artifacts and papers from the Tillamook chapter of the
Ku Klux Klan, ca. 1915, housed in Special Collections, Knight Library.
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