They Called Themselves the K.k.k.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Sep 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

Boys, let us get up a club.With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America’s democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, this account from Newbery Honor-winning author Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book to read and remember. A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist.

Ratings and reviews

Honestly I got the book and not much really goes down in it I was looking for more vivid pictures and quotes that they actually said but instead i got a load of bull and 90% of the pictures are the members posing with nothing else.

I wont read it but im black and i know alot about black history and i know alot about the kkk thier a group of raciam white people

I never read it but i know what it is about. It is about rasist white people

About the author

Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning author of several books for young readers, including Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal. She lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania.