Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction

by Elaine Frantz Parsons

Book Overview

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652137
• ISBN13: 9781469652139
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 8.6"