Life Of A Klansman: A Family History In White Supremacy

"In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball does not shirk from his ancestor’s role in preserving white supremacy, and neither should you. Ball’s great-great-grandfather was a “petit-blanc” or “little white” who belonged to a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated militia in postbellum New Orleans that terrorized Black Americans and tried to overthrow the government. In 363 pages, Ball details the events and attitudes that normalized violence in pursuit of a cruel cause, checking his own assumptions and that of his readers that history is only about the past."