The Thief, the Senator, and the Knight of the Bleeding Heart: John Stephens and the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction North Carolina

by Paul M. Green

The murder of John Walter Stephens by the Ku Klux Klan in 1870 was a turning point in the fight for equal voting rights in North Carolina. The Thief, the Senator, and the Knight of the Bleeding Heart is an intriguing and original work that is part biography (of both Stephens and his electoral opponent, former U.S. Senator Bedford Brown), part period history, part legal analysis, and part true crime thriller. The author is a retired appellate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CGL336BX
• ISBN13: 9798859083183
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"