How The South Won The War
[1865–1876]

When Terrorism Won in America
Part 1

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hen Terrorism Won in America was released in February 2000 as two one-hour documentaries, How the South Won the War and White Protestant Nation, encompassing the period from the end of the Civil War in 1865, through the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 and the new forms of racism that developed in the first two decades of the 20^th century. This gripping and little known history is told primarily in the words of eyewitnesses and participants or their descendants, contemporary writers and commentators, and supplemented by modern scholars. 

How the South Won the War covers the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers and the Reconstruction period.  Historical myths such as the Klan 'saving the South' from carpetbagger incompetence and corruption, and the brutality of the Freedmen are considered in the light of new testimony by ex-slaves and others. 

When Terrorism Won in America was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism, with additional funding from Public Radio International

PROGRAMS IN THIS SERIES How the South Won the War   Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington   White Protestant Nation   Rosewood Reborn   American As Apple Pie   Media & Myths     Get Real Player

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