![]() ![]() We must care about this version of the Klan. Linda Gordon, highlighting the different aspects of the KKK, proves that what the Klan believed and preached in the 1920s is essential for understanding how America functions today.ĭuring the reconstruction era, the original version of the Klan was a powerful terrorist group that mainly focused on undermining Republican candidates that often supported integration of Black Americans while advancing the cause of white supremacy. In the book, she also details how the Klan was able to rise and maintain its influence nationally. ![]() ![]() In The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Linda Gordon reflects on how the second version of the Ku Klux Klan impacted America during the 1920s and how the Klan’s rhetoric is projected in the modern world. As a summer collaborator at ESFL, I was drawn to a book which does precisely that. One of the goals of the East Side Freedom Library is to place the past and the present in conversation with each other. ![]()
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