Life of a Klansman, a family history in white supremacy, Edward Ball
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- Biographies
- Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche -- Louisiane -- La Nouvelle-Orléans -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Biography
- Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century
- Lecorgne, Constant, 1832-1886
- New Orleans (La.) -- Biography
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- 19th century
- White supremacy movements -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century
- Racisme -- Louisiane -- La Nouvelle-Orléans -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Creoles -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
- Lecorgne family
- White League (La.) -- Biography
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Biography
- Créoles -- Louisiane -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
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Life of a Klansman, a family history in white supremacy, Edward Ball
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-390)
resource.biographical
individual biography
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Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Life of a Klansman
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1141954202
Responsibility statement
Edward Ball
Sub title
a family history in white supremacy
Summary
"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."--, Provided by publisher"Sifting through family lore about "our Klansman" as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages-- all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. Ball also sought out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by Lecorgne and his comrades, and shares their stories."--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Prologue: Our Klansman -- The Ku-Klux Act -- Grands blancs / Big Whites -- Tribes -- Introduction to an Atrocity -- White Terror -- Petits blancs / Little Whites -- Redemption
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Family history in white supremacy
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