The Second Coming of the KKK
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social and cultural developments in the 1920s, 111–12
Women’s Ku Klux Klan (WKKK), 123, 132, 133, 137
see also feminism and the KKK; woman suffrage
working class
Klan members, 3, 186–87
non-Protestant people, 4
resistance to Klan in Youngstown, Ohio, 105, 155, 167, 181, 183, 186–87
route into middle class through Klan, 182–83
support for McAdoo, 167
support for Oregon’s schools amendment, 154–55
World War I, 12, 17, 98, 140, 144, 150
Yakima Indians, 146
York, Charlie, 31
Youngstown, OH, 105
youth groups of the Klan, 81, 133–34, 157
Zarephath, NJ, 119–20, 121
OTHER BOOKS BY LINDA GORDON
Feminism Unfinished:
A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements
(with Dorothy Sue Cobble and Astrid Henry)
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
(coedited with Gary Y. Okihiro)
The Moral Property of Women:
A History of Birth Control Politics in America
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Pitied but Not Entitled:
Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
Heroes of Their Own Lives:
The Politics and History of Family Violence
Cossack Rebellions:
Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Though born in Chicago, Linda Gordon considers Portland, Oregon, her hometown. Educated at Swarthmore College and Yale University, she first became a historian of the Ukraine, examining the origin of the Cossacks and publishing Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine. Frustrated by the difficulties of research in the USSR, at a time when access to Russian archives was limited, she happily turned to US history. For the first part of this new career, she wrote about the historical and gendered roots of social policy debates in the United States, publishing three prizewinning books: The Moral Property of Women, a history of birth-control politics; Heroes of Their Own Lives, about family violence; and Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare. She then turned toward topics that engaged her West Coast background, and to a narrative mode of exploring historical problems. Part of what made the American West different from the East was its greater racial diversity and complex forms of racism; with this in mind she wrote The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999), about a vigilante action against Mexican Americans, which won the Bancroft Prize for best book in US history and the Beveridge Prize for best book on the history of the Western hemisphere. Her 2009 biography of West Coast photographer Dorothea Lange also won the Bancroft Prize, making Gordon one of very few authors ever to win it twice, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. While working on that book, she discovered some eight hundred never-published Lange photographs of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, which had been impounded by the US Army because they were so clearly critical of the internment; Gordon and coauthor Gary Okihiro published a selection of these photographs, along with commentary about the internment, as Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. Gordon’s most recent book is Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements, written with Dorothy Sue Cobble and Astrid Henry.
Gordon taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston, then at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; in 1999 she moved to New York City, where she is now University Professor of Humanities and History at New York University.
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Title: The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition / Linda Gordon.
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Subjects: LCSH: Ku Klux Klan (1915– )—History—20th century. | Racism—United States—History—20th century. | Hate groups—United States—History—20th century. | Political culture—United States—History—20th century. | United States—Race relations—History—20th century.
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