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Life of a Klansman a family history in white supremacy

"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."-- Sifting through family lore about "our Klansman" as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A whit...

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Main Author: Ball, Edward, 1959- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Lecorgne, Constant, > 1832-1886.
Lecorgne family.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Racism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
White supremacy movements > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Creoles > Louisiana > History > 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Our Klansman
  • The Ku-Klux Act
  • Grands blancs / Big Whites
  • Tribes
  • Introduction to an Atrocity
  • White Terror
  • Petits blancs / Little Whites
  • Redemption.

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