TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Edward
TI  - Life of a Klansman: a family history in white supremacy 
SN  - 9780374186326
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Lecorgne, Constant,
KW  - Lecorgne family.
KW  - White League (La.)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Racism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - White supremacy movements
KW  - Creoles
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Prologue: Our Klansman -- The Ku-Klux Act -- Grands blancs / Big Whites -- Tribes -- Introduction to an Atrocity -- White Terror -- Petits blancs / Little Whites -- Redemption
N2  - "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 of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages-- all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. Ball also sought out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by Lecorgne and his comrades, and shares their stories. -- adapted from jacket
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