Review: They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is another great nonfiction book for young adults. I love history, and am a Civil War buff, so I thought I knew a lot about the KKK. It is so great when I can learn something new about history, especially about the history of the United States. This book describes a truly horrific time in our history. Just after the Civil War, during Reconstruction, and through the Jim Crow era, Susan Campbell Bartoletti does a fantastic job of explaining the history of the KKK, and about the lives of all the black people who had to live with the Clan's acts of terrorism. There are many actual photographs, illustrations, and a great deal of eyewitness accounts, as were recorded back in 1937, and can be found in the Library of Congress. I highly recommend this book for 8th graders and up.

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