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From a Klan-made movie

 

When Terrorism Won in America:
White Protestant Nation
[1915-1925]

 

 

 

 White Protestant Nation, released in February of 2000, covers the "Reincarnation" of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 as a mass-fraternal movement that enforced public morality and opposed immigration by "alien cultures."

 

 


 

 

Part 1 | A White Man’s Government

An exploration of objectives and political purposes, including accounts of the 1920 Election Day destruction of Ocoee, Florida in the words of Florida’s own Zora Neale Hurston and contemporary newspaper reports: a case study on the perceptual gaps between “objective” reporters–Black and White.

 

 

 

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1

Introduction & a Lesson: Terror or fraternity?  Debating our history

2

Reading History by Lightning”: New mass media racism, seen from several perspectives.  Audiences and effects

3

Race and ‘Riots’:  New pride, and new struggles. The “Red summer” of 1919

 

4

Campaigning: “They thought they had a chance”:  The politics of civil rights.  New voters, and a new vetoes.

 

5

Ocoee:  Election day 1920: The politics of violence and prosperity

 

6

Requiem & Responsibility:  Questioning costs and causes.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Part 2 | Marketing Racism—A Brotherhood of Terrorists?

From the groundbreaking film Birth of a Nation, to the scandals that eventually ruined the "Invisible Empire." Case Studies featured include the Klan strongholds Georgia and Indiana.

 

 

 

 

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7

Rebirth—“of  Damn’ation”: The Klan reborn, as a patriotic fraternity of moral enforcers

 

8

Marketing Appeal:  Multimedia and methods; the explosive growth of the Second Klan

9

Resistance: In White and Black

 

10

Terrorism or Fraternalism?:  Stories and debates about effects and causes

 

11

Politics & Decline:  100% Americanism; decline and fall

 

12

A Legacy Debated:  What was the reborn Klan’s impact and import?

 

 

 


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