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Boys, let us get up a club . With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. Soon, the six friends had named their club the Ku Klux Klan and all too... read more
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First Sentence edit
In the spring of 1865, as rain softened that hard ground, plenty work was found for every pair of hands on the Williams plantation in Camden, Arkansas, despite the Civil War, which was still raging at the end of its fourth year.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1: "Bottom Rail Top"
Chapter 2: "Boys, Let Us Get Up a Club"
Chapter 3: "I Was Killed at Chickamauga"
Chapter 4: "Worms Would Have Been Eating Me Now"
Chapter 5: "They Say a Man Ought Not to Vote"
Chapter 6: "I am Going to Die on This Land"
Chapter 7: "A Whole Race Trying to Go to School"
Chapter 8: "They Must Have Somebody to Guide Them"
Chapter 9: "Forced by Force, to Use Force"
Chapter 10: "The Sacredness of the Human Person"
Epilogue: "It Tuck a Long Time"
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Racism: Describe this theme.
- White hoods and Masks: The KKK wore white hoods, and white covers over their clothes as they rode through the towns, to instill fear into black Americans in the South following the Civil War. The KKK claimed to be ghosts of fallen soldiers come back for revenge.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780618440337
Page Count: 172
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780618440337
Page Count: 172
Awards edit
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Finalist, 2011)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HS2330.K63B37 2010
- Dewey: 322.420973
Subjects edit
- Books › Teens › Social Issues
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