What I’m Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK – 8 in a series – “…fight to exclude the “wrong kind” of people…”

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“Governmental actions—framing and executing anarchist immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, and deporting more than five hundred immigrant citizens accused of disloyalty—created a model for the Klan’s fight to exclude the “wrong kind” of people from belonging in America.”

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

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