Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he'd become the Grand Dragon of the state and and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows - their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise.
Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West.
But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. "A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. But finally, Kindra learned that-for her-the path toward hope wound through art, helping others, and sharing her story.Ī fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them Not even at the worldwide demonstration March for Our Lives. She was hopeless at times, feeling as if no one was listening. Every time Kindra took a step toward peace and wholeness, a new mass shooting devastated her again. This empathetic and ultimately hopeful graphic memoir recounts Kindra's journey forward from those few minutes that changed everything. Over the span of a few minutes, on October 1, 2015, eight students and a professor lost their lives. And then, one day, it happend: a mass shooting shattered her college campus. But now she lived in Oregon, where she spent her time swimming in rivers with friends or attending classes at the bucolic Umpqua Community College. Sure, she'd sometimes been close to gun violence, like when the house down the street from her childhood home in Texas was targeted in a drive-by shooting. Kindra Neely never expected it to happen to her.
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