They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Book Overview

Boys, let us get up a club. With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South. This is the story of how a secret terrorist group...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061844033X
• ISBN13: 9780618440337
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher