Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan (Volume 23) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Bernstein, Patricia; Patricia Bernstein

ISBN 10: 1623495296 / ISBN 13: 9781623495299

Published by Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan (Volume 23) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623495296
• ISBN 13: 9781623495299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed & inscribed by the Auth
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Culture
  • Race Relations
  • Texas

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Synopsis

Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s—by far the most “successful” incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War—and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas district attorney, demonstrated that Klansmen could be punished for taking the law into their own hands—in this case, for the vicious flogging of a young World War I veteran.

The 1920s Klan numbered in the millions and infiltrated politics and law enforcement across the United States, not just in the Deep South. Several states elected Klan-sponsored governors and US senators. Klansmen engaged in extreme violence against whites as well as blacks, promoted outrageous bigotry against various ethnic groups, and boycotted non-Klan businesses.

A few courageous public officials tried to make Klansmen pay for their crimes, notably after Klan assaults in California and Texas and two torture-murders in Louisiana. All failed until September 1923 when Dan Moody convicted and won significant prison time for five Klansmen in a tense courtroom in Georgetown, Texas. Moody became a national sensation overnight and went on to become the youngest governor of Texas at the age of 33.

The Georgetown cases were the beginning of the end for this iteration of the Klan. Two years later, the head of the Klan in Indiana was convicted of murdering a young woman.  Membership dwindled almost as quickly as it had grown, but the Klan’s poisonous influence lingered through the decades that followed.  Ten Dollars to Hate explores this pivotal—and brutal—chapter in the history of America.

About the Author

PATRICIA BERNSTEIN is the author of The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP and the president of Bernstein and Associates, a public relations firm in Houston. She has published articles in Texas Monthly, Smithsonian, and Cosmopolitan.