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Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, Wayne Greenhaw
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- Summary
- Wayne Greenhaw recounts his life and experiences as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, describing his interviews with Klan members, detectives, victims, civil rights leaders, and politicians, and discussing the history of Governor George C. Wallace
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 316 p., [16] p. of plates
- Contents
-
- Willie's first day
- The legacy of Willie Edwards
- Klan on trial
- Hound-dog determined
- "Fight everything segregated"
- The making of a segregationist
- The pair from Howard
- "Segregation forever!"
- Education of a liberal
- Country-boy lawyer
- The Alabama story
- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson
- Don Quixote of the South
- The Southern Courier
- The rise of John Hulett
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The people's attorney general
- Breaking the Klan
- "Forgive me, for I have sinned'
- "Like a mighty stream."
- Isbn
- 9781569763452
- Label
- Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
- Title
- Fighting the devil in Dixie
- Title remainder
- how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
- Statement of responsibility
- Wayne Greenhaw
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Wayne Greenhaw recounts his life and experiences as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, describing his interviews with Klan members, detectives, victims, civil rights leaders, and politicians, and discussing the history of Governor George C. Wallace
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1940-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Greenhaw, Wayne
- Dewey number
- 323.1196/0730761
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.615
- LC item number
- .G687 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Label
- Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, Wayne Greenhaw
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index
- Contents
- Willie's first day -- The legacy of Willie Edwards -- Klan on trial -- Hound-dog determined -- "Fight everything segregated" -- The making of a segregationist -- The pair from Howard -- "Segregation forever!" -- Education of a liberal -- Country-boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The Southern Courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream."
- Control code
- ocn617445932
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xix, 316 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9781569763452
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2010030114
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)617445932
- Label
- Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, Wayne Greenhaw
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index
- Contents
- Willie's first day -- The legacy of Willie Edwards -- Klan on trial -- Hound-dog determined -- "Fight everything segregated" -- The making of a segregationist -- The pair from Howard -- "Segregation forever!" -- Education of a liberal -- Country-boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The Southern Courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream."
- Control code
- ocn617445932
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xix, 316 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9781569763452
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2010030114
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)617445932
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