Freedom's Detective

“A riveting narrative history about early attempts to crack down and even stamp out the Ku Klux Klan’s reign of domestic terrorism . . . magnificent.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times –bestselling author of American Moonshot In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates and other white supremacists mobilized to stop them. Thus, the KKK was