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Article: The Invisible Empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.(Book Review)

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The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida. By Michael Newton. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 260. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2120-0.)

This excellent monograph is a history of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Florida from Reconstruction to 1999. Following in the pioneering footsteps of Stetson Kennedy, Jerrell Shofner, and other scholars, Michael Newton carefully examines the Florida Klan and its numerous incarnations as the anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and anti-immigrant guardian of 100 percent Americanism. The Invisible ...

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