Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
By: Edward Ball
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who t…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The names of families are the front doors of history."-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
"White supremacy is not a marginal ideology. It is the early build of the country. It is a foundation on which the social edifice rises, bedrock of institutions. White supremacy also lies on the floor of our minds. Whiteness is not a deformation of thought, but a kind of thought itself."-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
"In May 1896, the thoughtful justices of the high court, men who help to clarify national standards for everyone, determine that "repellent intimacy" is a persuasive argument. The law of quarantine is affirmed. "We think the enforced separation of the races. . .neither abridges the privileges or immunities of the colored man, deprives him of his property without due process of law, nor denies him the equal protection of the laws," writes associate justice Henry B. Brown in a 7-1 ruling. The main point, says Justice Brown, is that "legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts." The encirclement is complete. Race quarantine becomes the custom in all the land. White supremacy is acclaimed in habit, in thought and in law."-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
"The forty-fifth president of the United States is the son of a man, Fred C. Trump, who was arrested in New York one Memorial Day during the 1920s at a rally staged by the Ku Klux Klan. On May 31, 1927, in Queens, New York, about one thousand Klan marchers made their way through the borough's dense streets. They wore robes and hoods. The parade turned into a riot when the Klansmen attached a smaller Memorial Day march of Italian Americans. Whites beat up other whites because the second Klan, led by Protestants was anti-Catholic as well as anti-color. Fred C. Trump, age twenty-five, resident of the Jamaica section of Queens, was among seven arrested. The forty-fifth president, in his retirement, if he possessed the means of reading and writing, might himself produce a family history entitled "Life of a Klansman." The public awaits."-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
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17. Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
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