Wayne Greenhaw
Forfatter af Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
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Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama (2011) 40 eksemplarer
King Of Country 1 eksemplar
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- 1940
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- Alabama, USA
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The author included photos of the important participants in the narrative which was very much appreciated when the individual was not well known.
Reading this volume again leaves me in awe of those men and women who despite the fear that they must have felt, still went out and faced down the racists and bigots who lorded it over them just because their skin was not white. The hypocrisy of the religious leaders who preached the word of Christ and then could not see that they were not following it. Incidents such as that only confirm the validity of my decision to become an atheist.
The book is also a good introduction to the Ku Klux Klan and the many crimes they committed against the Black population. As with any extremist group whether the Islamist of today or the Nazis of the 1930, most of them are criminals who take advantage of the opportunity to kill and maim those who they see as weak.… (mere)