• The Klan Unmasked

The Klan Unmasked has 81 ratings and 12 reviews. Pat said: Half Martin Luther King Jr, half James Bond?That how Stetson Kennedy tells it anyway.

In the book, he describes how when he was young his African-American nanny was one day beat up by some white men for being in the wrong place. This experience had a profound experience on Kennedy, who was raised without prejudice.

He got inside, and showed that the hatred preached as white supremacy actually was based on violence and It was a different time, in that the Klan operated openly (at least in some arenas). The public message of the Klan after WWII did not differ from the opinions of a large minority of Americans at the time. However, they had a darker side, one that I think most people knew about, but none could pin on them. That is why Kennedy's work was so instrumental in the fight against the post WWII Klan. He got inside, and showed that the hatred preached as white supremacy actually was based on violence and murder. He also showed that the Klan had infiltrated and corrupted large numbers of sheriff's offices, police departments and other organs of government across not only the south, but the north as well.

The Klan Unmasked

In the book, he describes how when he was young his African-American nanny was one day beat up by some white men for being in the wrong place. This experience had a profound experience on Kennedy, who was raised without prejudice.

— Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide Stetson Kennedy here tells the story of 'The shocking truth about hooded terrorism by a man who infiltrated the infamous Ku Klux Klan and lived to tell about it.' — Tony Brown’s Journal 'In a fast-paced narrative that both repels and fascinates, Kennedy reveals the inner workings of the Klan as an undercover agent in the post-WWII era.' — Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide Stetson Kennedy here tells the story of his post-World War II years as an undercover agent in the KKK (where he rose to Kleagle rank). Fast-paced and suspenseful, the book is a gripping mix of eyewitness reports of Klan activities, accounts of Kennedy’s clandestine information-gathering, and his efforts to report his findings to the media and to any law enforcement agencies that would listen. As a result, for a time in the 1940s, Washington news commentator Drew Pearson was reading Klan meeting minutes on national radio, and radio’s Superman had America’s kids sharing the most current Klan passwords as fast as the Dragon could think up new ones.

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Some portions of the story are very dramatic, as when he describes riding in a car along with a bunch of racists KKK'ers and they knock an African American farmer into a ditch and kill his donkey, or simply drive their car over a young black man, crushing him instantly. These indiscriminate acts of violence are a reminder of how awful prejudice is and how much courage it took for him to immerse himself in this world in an effort to make things right. The author isn't the most sophisticated writer, but the book details his experiences investigating the Klan. This guy was one of the bravest individuals I've ever read about.

Why was he so free with his secret identity? How could that work? The book reads pretty sensationally, almost like a comic book. That plus the hate spewed by Klan members, and their casual violence, makes it hard to read. I made it through the first third and then skipped to the end. Kennedy's brilliance, though, was in making the Klan ridiculous, exposing their secret passwords and rituals to make them seem like an overgrown boys' club. A nasty and dangerous one, but silly.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ku Klux Klan Unmasked A number of expose`s were printed on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan against Blacks, Catholics, Jews and other minorities. In the early 1920's, the organization had a membership of close to 5 million. After receiving extensive publicity, the Grand Dragon was eventually indicted for murder, and membership dropped to 9,000 by 1930. The Ku Klux Klan, which had initially been formed in the South following the Civil War, exhibited a complete rebirth in the new century. While still virulently anti-black, its new targets were Catholics and all immigrants. Its broadest base of support was in the Midwest, where the Grand Dragon was David Stephenson. The Klan's tools of intimidation were church burnings, lynchings, mutilations and whippings.

In the 1940s, folklorist Stetson Kennedy went undercover in the KKK and other hate groups in order to document and expose their secrets. When he realized that law enforcement didn't really care, he funneled the information he was collecting to, among others, the Superman radio show. The exposure was credited with breaking the Klan in Georgia.

His efforts to expose the Klan's horrible deeds were unbelievable. I know there's been some question of the accuracy of his reports, but personally I believe the majority of what he wrote in this book.

Instead of sermonizing about the issue, Kennedy takes a very daring and practical approach and enthralls the readers with Klan-busting adventures. His work portrays the dangers of falling into the vicious business of hate-mongering very effectively and makes the reader think very hard about racial and social problems currently facing American society.

The Klan Unmasked © 1954 I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan Arco (London), l954 Morgan (Paris) 1958 University of Florida Press, l990 Talking Books, St. Augustine, 2010 University of Alabama Press, 2010 (Also in l7 foreign language editions.) In a fast-paced narrative that both repels and fascinates, Kennedy reveals the inner workings of the KKK from the perspective of an undercover agent in the post World War II era. This riveting book exposes and informs of his the work he and his partner (J. Brown) did fighting and exposing racism, terrorism and fascism in our own back yards! Fast-paced and suspenseful, The Klan Unmasked is a gripping mix of eyewitness reports of Klan activities.

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His work portrays the dangers of falling into the vicious business of hate-mongering very effectively and makes the reader think very hard about racial and social problems currently facing American society.

The book reads pretty sensationally, almost like a comic book. That plus the hate spewed by Klan members, and their casual violence, makes it hard to read. I made it through the first third and then skipped to the end. Kennedy's brilliance, though, was in making the Klan ridiculous, exposing their secret passwords and rituals to make them seem like an overgrown boys' club. A nasty and dangerous one, but silly. At one point he had the writers of the Superman radio show include all the Klan's passwords in episodes about Klan-busting. Kennedy claims that President Harding had been inducted into the Klan, and that Eisenhower was pro-segregation.

Its political strength grew to the point that in Colorado, the governor, as well as a good part of the legislature, was beholden to the Klan. On August 8, 1925, 50,000 Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The Klan declined very rapidly, however, when, in 1925, Stephenson was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

'The shocking truth about hooded terrorism by a man who infiltrated the infamous Ku Klux Klan and lived to tell about it.' — Tony Brown’s Journal 'In a fast-paced narrative that both repels and fascinates, Kennedy reveals the inner workings of the Klan as an undercover agent in the post-WWII era.' — Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide Stetson Kennedy here tells the story of 'The shocking truth about hooded terrorism by a man who infiltrated the infamous Ku Klux Klan and lived to tell about it.'

It was a different time, in that the Klan operated openly (at least in some arenas). The public message of the Klan after WWII did not differ from the opinions of a large minority of Americans at the time.