Stetson Kennedy
Stetson Kennedy
William Stetson Kennedywas an American author and human rights activist. One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. His actions led to the 1947 revocation by the state of Georgia of the Klan's national corporate charter. Kennedy wrote or co-wrote ten books...
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In all modesty, I am a hard man to discredit.
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Dottie perched on the edge of the desk, crossed her legs, and looked at me coyly over her highball. I leaned back . . .
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I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody knew I was trying to reach a big audience with the Klan book.
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Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.
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The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.