02152cam a2200325 4500 56983266 TxAuBib 20060322120000.0 060322s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96002905 9780878059072 paper 0878059075 paper (OCoLC)34690608 TxAuBib Nelson, Jack, 1929 Oct. 11- Terror in the night : the Klan's campaign against the Jews / Jack Nelson. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1996. 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index. In 1966 the Ku Klux Klan launched a second front in the South, this one against Mississippi's small enclaves of Jews. Well assimilated within the white population, Jews had been diffident about voicing support of black civil rights. When violence erupted and Jewish voices began crying out for action, the Klan scapegoated Jews in a campaign of terror.Jack Nelson, himself a Mississippian and in the 1960s Atlanta bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, had lost no time in coming home to write page-one reports on the civil rights struggle. In Terror in the Night he re-creates the chilling experiences of investigating the Klan's campaign against the Jews. He reports on the bombing of a Jackson synagogue, the dynamiting of a rabbi's house, and the Klan's marking select Mississippi Jews for execution. He reports how law enforcement's clandestine investigations, bankrolled by Mississippi Jews, helped bag the terrorists in a nearly disastrous shootout. 20060322. Ku Klux Klan (1915- .) Antisemitism Mississippi Meridian. Antisemitism Mississippi Jackson. Jews Mississippi Meridian History 20th century. Jews Mississippi Jackson History 20th century. Mississippi Ethnic relations. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0u4-aa Book review (H-Net) TXLIV