GOP Lawmaker’s Celebration Of KKK Leader Forces Racial Reckoning In Alabama
The backlash to Alabama State Rep. Will Dismukes’s celebration of the 1st KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest marks a shift in the state — or at least a beginning.…
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In Memphis, A Battle Over The First KKK Leader’s Statue
Memorials and the radical right: the descendants of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest seek to honor their forefather’s violent racism. So now the battle over memory of the American Civil…
A Populist’s Path: From Advocate of the People to Inspiration for the KKK
Tom Watson promoted himself as a leading voice of Southern white supremacy, nostalgically evoking images of the “Old South” that drew legitimacy from its grounding in a combination of Jeffersonian…
Recent Splits & Spills in the American Radical Right
The American radical right has almost always been fractured, riven by red-hot splits over ideology, raw power, and an unrelieved series of petty fights revolving around sex, drugs, money, and…
Book Review: ‘Bring the War Home’ by Kathleen Belew
University of Chicago historian Kathleen Belew’s new book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, claims to be the first complete history of the contemporary American…