The Klan Unmasked
Title | The Klan Unmasked PDF eBook |
Author | Stetson Kennedy |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817356746 |
The author, who writes of his experiences as an undercover agent in the KKK after WWII, has added an afterword and new photos to this edition.
Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A.
Title | Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A. PDF eBook |
Author | Stetson Kennedy |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817356711 |
Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers.
Palmetto Country
Title | Palmetto Country PDF eBook |
Author | Stetson Kennedy |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780813009599 |
Reprint of the 1942 edition. The author headed the Florida Writer's Project unit on folklore, oral history, and social ethnic studies for the Works Progress Administration. This is his wide-ranging social history of Florida and the deep South up to the eve of WWII. No bibliography. Published by Flor
Jim Crow Guide
Title | Jim Crow Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Stetson Kennedy |
Publisher | Florida Atlantic Univ |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780813009872 |
Describes the segregation guidelines imposed during the century between Emanicipation and "The Overcoming" concerning with whom one could live, work, sleep, travel, eat, play, assemble, and marry
Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan
Title | Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Bowers |
Publisher | Disney Electronic Content |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2012-01-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1426309171 |
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force. It is the story Ku Klux Klan's development from a club to a huge money-making machine powered by the powers of fear and hate and of the folklorist who--along with many other activists-- took on the Klan by wielding the power of words. Above all, it tells the story of Superman himself--a modern mythical hero and an embodiment of the cultural reality of his times--from the Great Depression to the present. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
Drying Up
Title | Drying Up PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Dunn |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2019-02-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 081306385X |
Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction America’s wettest state is running out of water. Florida—with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs—faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home. Journalist and educator John Dunn untangles the many causes of the state’s freshwater problems. Drainage projects, construction, and urbanization, especially in the fragile wetlands of South Florida, have changed and shrunk natural water systems. Pollution, failing infrastructure, increasing outbreaks of toxic algae blooms, and pharmaceutical contamination are worsening water quality. Climate change, sea level rise, and groundwater pumping are spoiling freshwater resources with saltwater intrusion. Because of shortages, fights have broken out over rights to the Apalachicola River, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and other important watersheds. Many scientists think Florida has already passed the tipping point, Dunn warns. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and years of research, he affirms that soon there will not be enough water to meet demand if “business as usual” prevails. He investigates previous and current restoration efforts as well as proposed future solutions, including the “soft path for water” approach that uses green infrastructure to mimic natural hydrology. As millions of new residents are expected to arrive in Florida in the coming decades, this book is a timely introduction to a problem that will escalate dramatically—and not just in Florida. Dunn cautions that freshwater scarcity is a worldwide trend that can only be tackled effectively with cooperation and single-minded focus by all stakeholders involved—local and federal government, private enterprise, and citizens. He challenges readers to rethink their relationship with water and adopt a new philosophy that compels them to protect the planet’s most precious resource.
Klansville, U.S.A
Title | Klansville, U.S.A PDF eBook |
Author | David Cunningham |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199752028 |
In 'Klansville, U.S.A.', David Cunningham tells the story of the astounding trajectory of the Klan during the 1960s by focusing on the pivotal and under-explored case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina. Why the KKK flourished in the Tar Heel state presents a puzzle and a window into the complex appeal of the Klan as a whole.