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09-22-2007, 11:51 AM
Driveing to the Farmer's Market and listening to "What Do You Know ?!" on NPR S.J. Dupner was talking about the book he co-wrote called Freakonomics and related the story of Stetson Kennedy....
After World War II Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, and he subsequently authored a number of books dealing with human rights, including Southern Exposure, Jim Crow Guide, and After Appomattox: How the South Won the War, some of which have been widely translated into other languages. While undercover in the Klan, he also provided information - including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals - to the writers of the Superman radio program. The result was a series of four episodes in which Superman took on the Klan. Kennedy intended to strip away the Klan's mystique, and the trivialization of the Klan's rituals and codewords likely had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership. In 1954, Kennedy wrote a popular memoir that exposed the workings of the Klan and his undercover work (I Rode With The Ku Klux Klan). This book has been reissued as "The Klan Unmasked".
After World War II Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, and he subsequently authored a number of books dealing with human rights, including Southern Exposure, Jim Crow Guide, and After Appomattox: How the South Won the War, some of which have been widely translated into other languages. While undercover in the Klan, he also provided information - including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals - to the writers of the Superman radio program. The result was a series of four episodes in which Superman took on the Klan. Kennedy intended to strip away the Klan's mystique, and the trivialization of the Klan's rituals and codewords likely had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership. In 1954, Kennedy wrote a popular memoir that exposed the workings of the Klan and his undercover work (I Rode With The Ku Klux Klan). This book has been reissued as "The Klan Unmasked".