THEY'RE BACK
The Ku Klux Klan had its first revival in the ’20s, when membership soared in the North, and its faux populist rhetoric eerily anticipates the current model’s blather.
Linda Gordon, winner of two Bancroft Prizes and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, is the author of Dorothea Lange and Impounded, and the coauthor of Feminism Unfinished. Her forthcoming book The Second Coming of the KKK will be published by Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, in October 2017. She is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University and lives in New York and Madison, Wisconsin.