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"A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them" by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan chronicles the gripping story of the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to power not in the old Confederacy, but the West and the Heartland of America in an age characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity, The Roaring Twenties—The Jazz Age.
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In January 1966, Vernon Dahmer, head of a Mississippi chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was murdered by the White…
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Acclaimed New York Times columnist and author Charles M. Blow never wanted to write a “race book.” But as both physical and psychological violence against…
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In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to…
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Vegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. He has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict in central…
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is out with an updated version of its "Hate Map." The group ranks New York state fourth in the nation for the number of…
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An arrest has been made in connection with a series of racially-charged incidents in a Montgomery County village.Police in Fort Plain have arrested an…
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A man accused of distributing Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers to two members of Burlington's minority community has pleaded not guilty to disorderly…
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Late last month, a number KKK fliers were discovered at the homes of two black women in Burlington. The incident sparked a number of rallies in Burlington…