Southern Exposure A Documented Expose of the Anti-Democratic Forces in the Deep South

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1946. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. 3-ring binder. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. T here is some very beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the half title page. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears. There are a couple of chips missing, mostly to the top edge of the dust jacket. The bottom rear dust jacket panel has a one inch + semi-closed tear. "Kennedy was unable to enlist in the military to serve in World War II because of a bad back, so he decided to channel his patriotism towards combatting racial injustices in the Jim Crow South. He is best known for infiltrating the Georgia Ku Klux Klan and for exposing their secrets on the popular children's radio program The Adventures of Superman, thus trivializing their rituals. He also targeted the Columbians, an Atlanta-based neo-Nazi organization. Kennedy said, "There were an awful lot of evils abroad in the world at the time, as there still are, but I couldn't help but feel that racism was perhaps the most evil". Working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Kennedy joined the multiple Klan-affiliated organizations under the pseudonym John Perkins. He intended to gain evidence that could be used to prosecute its members. He obtained information about the Klan's "Invisible Empire" through his own participation and also through a high-ranking informant. As soon as he became aware of new details, he shared the Klan's secrets with police, prosecutors, journalists, and human rights organizations. In 1947, after a year of working undercover, he consented to testify in a trial against the leaders of the Columbians, Homer Loomis and Emory Burke, who were found guilty. " (from Wikipedia) .