Wikipedia talk:Featured article removal candidates/Ku Klux Klan

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Poor quality Sources for old version
The main source used was Horn's laudatory book praising the 1st KKK. Several bio's of Truman (why he never joined);

General

 * Newton, Michael, and Judy Ann Newton. The Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia.  Garland Publishing, 1991.
 * Chalmers, David Mark. Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. (Durham: Duke UP 3rd edition 1987).
 * Wade, Wyn Craig. The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. New York: Simon and Schuster (1987). An unsympathetic account.

First Klan

 * Edward John Harcourt; "Who Were the Pale Faces? New Perspectives on the Tennessee Ku Klux" Civil War History. Volume: 51. Issue: 1. (2005). pp: 23+.
 * Horn, Stanley F. Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871, Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation: Montclair, NJ, 1939, a sympathetic portrait based on oral histories
 * Christopher Long, "Ku Klux Klan" in Texas" (2005) covers 1866-1990
 * Parsons, Elaine Frantz, "Midnight Rangers: Costume and Performance in the Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan." The Journal of American History 92.3 (2005): 811-36
 * Trelease, Allen W. White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (Harper and Row, 1971).
 * Lou Falkner Williams. The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (2004)

Second Klan

 * Alexander, Charles C. The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965).
 * Angle, Paul M. Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness (1992)
 * Feldman, Glenn. Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949 (1999)
 * Horowitz, David A. Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), based on the minutes of a chapter in Oregon.
 * Lay, Shawn, ed. The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press: 2003).
 * Christopher Long, "Ku Klux Klan" in Texas (2005) covers 1866-1990
 * Moore, Leonard J. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1991).
 * Maclean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. (NY: Oxford University Press, 1995).
 * 2001 essay interpreting KKK by Professor John McClymer, Assumption College
 * "Kansas Battles the Invisible Empire: The Legal Ouster of the KKK From Kansas, 1922-1927," by Charles William Sloan, Jr. Kansas Historical Quarterly Fall, 1974 (Vol. 40, No. 3), pp 393-409 details how KKK operated

Later Klans
Rjensen 02:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Chalmers, David Mark. ''Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement." (Rowman & Littlefield: 2003).
 * Nelson, Jack. Terror in the Night: The Klan’s Campaign Against the Jews. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).]]
 * Rose; Douglas D. The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race (University of North Carolina Press. 1992).
 * Thompson, Jerry. My Life in the Klan, (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982), ISBN 0399126953.


 * Instead of splitting this discussion, let's continue this on the article's talk page. Some of your info is correct. SOme of it, though, is incredibly POV. However, I believe the differences between all of us are not as great as may appear. Let's work together and bring this article back to a FA level.--Alabamaboy 14:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Are any other editors who've expressed opinions here going to take part in the discussions about the article at Talk:Ku Klux Klan?--Alabamaboy 13:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)