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Fighting the devil in Dixie how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama /

Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-

Fighting the devil in Dixie how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama / [electronic resource] : Wayne Greenhaw. - Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, 2011. - xix, 316 p., [17] p. of plates : ill., ports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Willie's first day -- The legacy of Willie Edwards -- Klan on trial -- Hound-dog determined -- "Fight everything segregated" -- The making of a segregationist -- The pair from Howard -- "Segregation forever!" -- Education of a liberal -- Country boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The southern courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream".


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History.--Alabama


African Americans--Civil rights--History--Alabama--20th century.


Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

E185.615 / .G687 2011

323.1196/0730761

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