Book Review: Against the Klan: A Newspaper Publisher in South Louisiana During the 1960s , by Lou Major.

The article focuses on *Against the Klan: A Newspaper Publisher in South Louisiana During the 1960s*, a memoir by Marion L. "Lou" Major, former editor and publisher of the Bogalusa Daily News. The book details Major’s efforts to use his position as a White newspaper publisher to expose and oppose th...

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Publicado en:Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Vol. 103; no. 1; pp. 398 - 401
Autor principal: Myers, Christina L.
Formato: Book Review
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Mar2026
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        Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
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        White supremacy
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