Wayne Greenhaw: Fighting the Devil in Dixie
336 views · Published 10 April 2014 · 45:25 · Indexed 1 November 2026
Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
Wayne Greenhaw, distinguished writer and former newspaper reporter, discusses his book, Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. He tells how the Klan, empowered by Governor George Wallace's defiance of civil rights laws, grew more violent until confronted by a courageous, determined coalition of blacks and whites. Greenhaw tells the full story, from the Klan's bombings and murders in the 1950s to Wallace's run for a fourth term as governor in the early 1980s, when he asked for forgiveness and won re-election with the black vote.
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