The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida

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The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida
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First edition cover
Author Michael Newton
LanguageEnglish
Subject Ku Klux Klan
Publisher University Press of Florida
Publication date
2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages260
ISBN 0-8130-2120-0
OCLC 47136480
322.4
LC Class HS2330.K63 N485 2001

The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida is a 2001 book about the Ku Klux Klan by Michael Newton. It was published by the University Press of Florida in 2001. It received positive reviews and the Rembert Patrick Annual Book Award from the Florida Historical Society.

Contents

Overview

A look into the so-called 'Invisible Empire' of Ku Klux Klan activity in Florida, beginning with the days of Reconstruction and ending at the present day.

Publication history

It was published by the University Press of Florida in 2001. [1]

Reception

Paul Ortiz praised The Invisible Empire as an "excellent monograph", praising Newton's "careful attention to location, nuance, and change over time." [2] G. Zuber for the The Journal of Southern Religion said "the book represents one of the best and most concise overviews of Klan history and scholarship to date". [3] William D. Jenkins called it a "thorough chronicling of the Florida Klan", noting it as one of the "Few books on the Ku Klux Klan [to] have chronicled its activities in a single state from Reconstruction to the present". [4]

It received the Rembert Patrick Annual Book Award from the Florida Historical Society. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ "The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida". University Press of Florida.
  2. ↑ Ortiz, Paul (2004). "Review of The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida". The Journal of Southern History . 70 (4): 949–950. doi:10.2307/27648615. ISSN   0022-4642. JSTOR   27648615.
  3. ↑ Zuber, G. (2002). "Michael Newton. The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida". The Journal of Southern Religion. 5. ISSN   1094-5253 . Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  4. 1 2 Jenkins, William D. (2003-06-01). "The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida". Journal of American History . 90 (1): 303–304. doi:10.2307/3659920. ISSN   0021-8723.
  5. ↑ "Newton, Michael 1951–". Encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 2025-06-19.
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