What I’m Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK – 16 in a series – “…he second Klan to broaden its enemies list beyond African Americans.”

“The Klan’s second parent was nativism, an anti-immigrant movement and state of mind. Its bequest provided its offspring a route to legitimacy. Nativism already had a long and respectable tradition in the United States, a tradition that encouraged the second Klan to broaden its enemies list beyond African Americans.”

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

What I'm Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK - 1 in a series

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