The hateful history of the Ku Klux Klan

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From the article:

So The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (W.W. Norton and Company), by Linda Gordon, a professor of history at New York University, is a late addition to a very crowded shelf. The book makes its contribution chiefly as a work of synthesis; its endnotes point, for the most part, to earlier studies rather than primary sources.

To read more:

https://socialistworker.org/2017/11/28/the-hateful-history-of-the-ku-klux-klan

Considering the messaging of the Trump campaign, and considering how racist hate groups feel secure enough to march once again, it is good to remember that racial hate is one of the foundational pillars of US capitalism and US society.