Klanwatch (Mentor) [Paperback]

Bill Stanton (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 1992 | Series: Mentor

An insider's account of Klanwatch describes how civil rights attorney Morris Dees and other Klanwatch workers took on the Klan and brought its members to justice, enduring intimidation, death threats, and other dangers. Reprint. NYT.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., headed by Morris Dees, was founded in 1971. The nonprofit civil rights law firm specialized throughout the '80s in fighting the Ku Klux Klan. Stanton, who joined the center in 1978, became director of its Klanwatch division in 1985, leaving the firm two years later. In this stirring study he discusses how, in the past decade, the group has beaten the Klan in the cases of Vietnamese shrimpers in Texas under attack by whites; KKK rioters in Decatur, Ala., who attempted to break up a peaceful march by blacks protesting the conviction of a retarded man charged with rape; and in the random murder of a black youth in Mobile, Ala. This last episode resulted in a civil suit that proved the Klan to be an organized conspiracy and won a damage verdict of $7 million for the victim's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, effectively bankrupting the Klan, now an almost-dormant organization with a tiny membership.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

YA-- The Klanwatch Project, a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based law firm and civil rights action committee, is dedicated to fighting the Klan through the use of criminal and civil lawsuits. Stanton, the project's director, narrates some of the group's most notable successes and failures. Crisply and concisely written, the book reads in part like an adventure novel or a detective story; its plea for tolerance for all races and creeds remains a timely topic. Engrossing reading for YAs and an effective instructional tool for teachers of American history and social sciences. --Richard Lisker, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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