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Unmasking the Klansman - The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter (Hardcover)
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Unmasking the Klansman - The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter (Hardcover)
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Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is
actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most
notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the
1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across
the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in
the white Citizens' Council movement. Combining racism and
thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike
force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an
attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil
rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new
insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by
white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement
in the region. In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to
George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor's infamous 1963
inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow,
segregation forever." When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972,
few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas,
masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name
"Forrest" Carter, he published three successful Western novels,
including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales that Clint Eastwood made
into a widely acclaimed 1976 movie. His last book, The Education of
Little Tree (a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood)
posthumously became a number one best-seller in 1991. Author Dan T.
Carter uncovered "Forrest" Carter's true identity while researching
his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times' op-ed he
exposed Carter's deception. Although the difficulties of uncovering
the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon
the project, in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred
interviews by the late Anniston newsman, Fred Burger. These
recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally
brought Asa Carter's story into focus. Unmasking the Klansman is
the result.
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