Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30pm
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A Fever in the Heartland : the Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan.
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The Roaring Twenties was the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. But at the peak of their influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman who would reveal their secret cruelties, and finally brought the Klan to their knees.
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There are copies in MILS. Other copies, are available in MaineCat.