On 3/25/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, The Birth of a Nation is about the KKK and pro-Southern whites,
> but so is Gone with the Wind, though more ambiguously so. Ashley
> Wilkes, Scarlet's original love and the mirror of Southern gentlemen,
> is a member of the Klan.
the Wilkes-types usually kept an arms-distance from the KKK, joining
"white citizens' councils" instead.
It is said that the KKK drew members from "from every class of white
society" (qtd. Michael W. Fitzgerald, "Lou Faulkner Williams, The
Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872, Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 197. $35.00 (ISBN
0-8203-11795-0),"
<http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/17.1/br_10.html>).
While almost all social movements, left or right or center, are
multi-class movements, I'd think that, given the nature of the
organization (anti-labor as well as anti-Black), many members were
from the higher classes and strata of communities.
--
Yoshie
