The nature and objectives of the Ku Klux Klan are revealed in a study of its development and members over one hundred years.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : F. Watts, ©1981. Reprint. Originally published: New York : F. Watts, c1981. Includes index.

Quick look behind the mask -- Klan rides, 1865-71 -- Birth of a nation -- Klan revival, 1915-21 -- Eyes of Texas -- Mayhem and martial law in Oklahoma -- Razorback klan -- Louisiana: black sheets among the Bayous -- Mississippi: fiery crosses on the Levee -- Georgia: the klan tabernacle -- Heart of dixie -- Oregon: puritanism repotted -- Success and schism in the tarheel state -- Klansmen in the Carolina Piedmont -- Price of success -- Ten-dollar special -- Gold-rush days in California -- Pikes peak or bust -- In defense of Inland America -- Twisting the klan's shirttail in Kansas -- Bad luck in Minneapolis -- Border-state klans -- Klan castles in Indiana -- Mighty Ohio -- Fighting Illini -- Badger games in Wisconsin -- White robes on Woodward Avenue -- National politics -- Championship fight in Madison Square Garden -- Anticlimax: the nineteen twenty-four election -- From Canada to the Rio Grande -- Every man for himself in Florida -- Attempted dominion in Virginia -- Riotous doings in Penn's Woods -- Methodists and madness in the Garden State -- E-ri-e was a-rising, and the gin was getting low -- Defending the puritan fathers -- Klan international -- Marching on Washington -- Decline -- Nineteen twenty-eight, a year of perils and promises -- Depression decade, 1929-39 -- All dressed up but not going anywhere: the colescott era -- Hooded world of Dr. Green -- Death of the dragon -- Laissez faire, violence, and confusion in the late fifties -- New frontiers of the nineteen sixties -- Long hot summer -- Declining power -- Bad times in the 1970s -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics, and revival -- Death in Greensboro -- Enduring klan.