Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy / Edward Ball.

"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."-- Sifting through family lore about "our Klansman" as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father o...

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Main Author: Ball, Edward, 1958- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lecorgne, Constant, > 1832-1886.
Lecorgne family.
White League (La.) > Biography.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Biography.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Racism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
White supremacy movements > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Creoles > Louisiana > History > 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:395 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Family history in white supremacy
Format: Book

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Call Number: F379.N553 L433 2020
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