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The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi

A LSO BY M ICHAEL N EWTON

AND FROM M C F ARLAND

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The FBI Encyclopedia (2003)

The Ku Klux Klan

in Mississippi

A History

M ICHAEL N EWTON

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGUING - IN -P UBLICATION D ATA

Newton, Michael, ¡951–

The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi : a history / by Michael Newton.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7864-4653-7

softcover : 50# alkaline paper

1. Ku-Klux Klan (19th cent.)— Mississippi — History. 2. Ku Klux Klan

(1915– )— Mississippi — History. 3. Mississippi — History. I. Title.

HS2330.K63N496 2010

2009039298

British Library cataloguing data are available

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form

or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying

or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publisher.

Front cover: eyes at top Samuel Bowers led Mississippi’s most militant

Klan faction in the 1960s (National Archives); Klansmen bombed

scores of homes, churches, and other targets in the 1960s (HCUA)

Manufactured in the United States of America

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640

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Michael Newton - The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, A History (2010).pdf