Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.

They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group / They called themselves the Ku Klux Klan by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010. - 172 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-168) and index.

A note to the reader -- "Bottom rail top" -- "Boys, let us get up a club" -- "I was killed at Chickamauga" -- "Worms would have been eating me now -- "They say a man ought not to vote" -- "I am going to die on this land" -- "A whole race trying to go to school" -- "They must have somebody to guide them" -- "Forced by force, to use force" -- "The sacredness of the human person" -- Epilogue : "it tuck a long time" -- Civil rights time line.

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011 Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 School Library Journal starred, August 2010 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2011 Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2011 Booklist starred, August 2010 Horn Book Starred, September 2010 Pub Weekly, July 2010 Kirkus Starred, June 2010 Horn Book, May 2011

Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.

Young Adult Follett Library Resources.



061844033X

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Ku Klux Klan.


Racism--History.--United States
Hate crimes--History.--United States


United States--Race relations.

HS2330.K63 / B37 2010

322.4/2/0973