<p><span class="deck">It was 1924 and the Klan was riding high. The author’s father, a congressman, wouldn’t join, and this Is how It felt to be an outcast in one’s own home town that summer.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">President Roosevelt had failed to “pack” a hostile Supreme Court, and now the first New Dealer he named to that high bench stood accused of being a lifetime member of the infamous Ku Klux Klan</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Whatever you were taught or thought you knew about the post-Civil War era is probably wrong in the light of recent study</span> </span></p>
<p>In the 1920s, the Klan expanded by targeting Catholics, Jews, and foreigners, as well as blacks. But, eventually, it collided with fundamental American values.</p>
<p><span class="deck">Although marred by the grisly murders of three young activists, the Freedom Summer of 1964 brought revolutionary changes to Mississippi and the nation.</span></p>
