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Right in Michigan’s Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia

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“A real contribution to Michigan history that gets to the root of the movements in twentieth-century American history that upon reflection can bring a certain discomfort and unease.”
—Francis X. Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Throughout the twentieth century, Michigan became home to nearly each political movement in The united states that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns at the “left,” at the “right,” and in the “middle of the road.”Right in Michigan’s Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia is about the people who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful—members of the Ku Klux Klan right through the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the postWorld War II era, and the members of the Michigan Militia who first seemed in the 1990s.

The book explores the complex historical circumstances in Michigan that prompted the emergence of these organizations and led on a regular basis women and men to head off, regardless of ridicule or condemnation, with plans unsanctioned and tactics unorthodox, variously brandishing weapons of intimidation, discrimination, fearmongering, and terror. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including the organizations’ files and interviews with some of their leaders and surviving members, JoEllen Vinyard provides a much more complete portrait of these well-known extremist groups than has ever been to be had.

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