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Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement [Hardcover]

David Chalmers (Author)

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Publication Date: 25 Mar 2003
In Backfire: How The Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement, the leading historian of the Ku Klux Klan brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up-to-date. David Chalmers skillfully shows how Klan violence actually aided the civil rights movement of the 1960s and revolutionized the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights. He follows the forty-year struggle to punish Klan murderers through the courts of Alabama, Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center finally found a way to bring the Klan down. As it looks to the future, Backfire examines the emergence of today's violent conspiracies of the white supremacist Right.

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Backfire is of much interest, especially in showing the links between the history of the Klan and the differently insidious newer groups, and it helps make Chalmers' point that race remains the basic subtext in American society and politics. . . . [It] deserves a wide readership.--Joseph J. Wydeven, Bellevue University

About the Author

David Chalmers is the author of And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s and Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. He went to jail with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine, Florida, and was an expert witness in Federal Court in Chattanooga, and a consultant to President Johnson's National Violence Commission. He is Distinguished Service Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Florida.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Missed an opportunity 3 Mar 2006
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Chalmers' Backfire is intended to illustrate how the Klan's activities backfired and actually helped the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and 60s. Chalmers cites examples, but fails to provide and in-depth analysis to support his thesis. He spends the second half of the book discussing the downfall of the Klan and the continued rise of the movement after loosing one of its most prominent faces, Dr. King.

The entire book is filled with useful information, but half digresses from a strong thesis. Supporting his thesis throughout the book would have made his case that much stronger.
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