Thread by @jbouie

i'm about halfway through @ProfEFP's book "Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction" and it is absolutely fascinating uncpress.org/book/978146965…

in particular, the ways in which mass media helped spread the idea of "ku-klux" violence which in turn shapes how victims and perpetrators of violence in the reconstruction south present their experiences and motives

it's that relationship to media which seems to be a real point of continuity between the reconstruction klan and the "second klan" of the 1910s and 20s.

i'm reading @ProfEFP's book back-to-back with "But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction" which is also very good! ugapress.org/book/978082033…