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Notre Dame vs. the Klan : how the Fighting Irish defeated the Ku Klux Klan
- Title
- Notre Dame vs. the Klan : how the Fighting Irish defeated the Ku Klux Klan / Todd Tucker.
- Author
- Tucker, Todd, 1968-
- Publication
- Chicago : Loyola Press, [2004]
- ©2004
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The author describes the weekend in May 1924 when members of the anti-Catholic organization and students at the Catholic university fought in South Bend, Indiana. To that conflict he traces the decline of the Klan in Indiana and the acceptance of the university and Catholics more generally in the US.
- Alternative Title
- Notre Dame versus the Klan
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : May 19, 1924 -- The antagonists -- Fr. Sorin and the birth of Notre Dame -- The reincarnation of the Ku Klux Klan -- Notre Dame and the Indiana Klan -- The Klan takes over Indiana -- In the crosshairs of the Klan -- D. C. Stephenson's grab for power -- The rally and the riot -- The ambush -- The ascent of Notre Dame -- The ruin of D. C. Stephenson and the collapse of the Klan -- The aftermath.
- ISBN
- 0829417710
- 9780829417715
- LCCN
- 2003027927
- OCLC
- ocm53987028
- 53987028
- SCSB-8921840
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library