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Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama [Repost]
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Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama by Wayne Greenhaw
English | 1 Jan. 2011 | ISBN: 1569763453 | 353 Pages | PDF | 4.27 MB
English | 1 Jan. 2011 | ISBN: 1569763453 | 353 Pages | PDF | 4.27 MB
Shortly after the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Ku Klux Klan–determined to keep segregation as the way of life inAlabama–staged a resurgence, and the strong-armed leadership of governor George C. Wallace, who defiedthe new civil rights laws, empowered the Klan's most violent members. As Wallace s power grew, however, blacks began fighting back in the courthouses and schoolhouses, as did young southern lawyers like Charles Chuck Morgan, who became the ACLU s southern director; Morris Dees, who cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center; and Bill Baxley, Alabama attorney general, who successfully prosecuted the bomber of Birmingham s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and legally halted some of Wallace s agencies designed to slow down integration.
Fighting the Devil in Dixie is the first book to tell this story in full, from the Klan s kidnappings, bombings, and murders of the 1950s to Wallace running for his fourth term as governor in the early 1980s, asking forgiveness and winning with the black vote.
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