Right in Michigan's Grasslands From the KKK to Today's Militia |
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| Author:
| Vinyard, Joellen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-472-07159-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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Throughout the 20th century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns on the left, on the right, and in the middle of the road. This is a study of those who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful-members of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the...
More DescriptionThroughout the 20th century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns on the left, on the right, and in the middle of the road. This is a study of those who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful-members of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the post-World War II era, and the members of the Michigan Militia who first appeared in the 1990s.