Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

"A fascinating case study... Cunningham's study is a solid addition to the field and a worthy contribution to current debates about domestic terrorism." --Publishers Weekly"All too often scholars tend to treat social movements as akin to organizations, as coherent, singular entities rather than as the unruly collections of groups and factions they tend to be. In this important book on the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina in the 1960s, Cunningham honors this messiness, while proposing a model of 'mediated competition' to explain local variation in the extent and form of Klan mobilization in the state. Anyone interested in the Klan, the civil rights movement, or social movements in general will want to have this on their shelf." --Doug McAdam, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University"Cunningham's nuanced study shows us why understanding the past is still relevant for today.