Shades of Anti–Civil Rights Violence
Shades of Anti–Civil Rights Violence
Reconsidering the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
This chapter focuses on the Ku Klux Klan and its place in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, with emphasis on its link to violence or armed self-defense as part of how to address issues of race and politics in the mid-1960s. It considers the notion that the Ku Klux Klan was a constant presence or unified organization and shows that multiple klans existed in Mississippi, including the White Knights, Original Knights, and the United Klans of America. It also examines the differences in tactics, membership, and rituals among these klans, particularly their attitudes toward violence. The chapter highlights the efforts of some klans to shed their reputations as terrorists by claiming that they espoused nonviolence and were not involved in bombing churches.
Keywords: civil rights movement, Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi, violence, self-defense, race, politics, White Knights, United Klans of America, nonviolence
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