Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
- ISBN-10
- 0829417710
- ISBN-13
- 9780829417715
- Category
- Anti-Catholicism
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Loyola Press
- Author
- Todd Tucker
Description
Todd tells of the weekend in May 1924 when members of the anti-Catholic organization and students at the Catholic university fought in South Bend, Indiana. To that conflict he traces the decline of the Klan in Indiana and the acceptance of the university and Catholics more generally in the US. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews
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