Bibliograph

Burden, a preacher, a Klansman, and a true story of redemption in the modern South, Courtney Hargrave ; with a forward by Andrew Heckler

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Burden, a preacher, a Klansman, and a true story of redemption in the modern South, Courtney Hargrave ; with a forward by Andrew Heckler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Burden

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1010776543

Responsibility statement

Courtney Hargrave ; with a forward by Andrew Heckler

Sub title

a preacher, a Klansman, and a true story of redemption in the modern South

Summary

In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the international spotlight when a white supremacist named Michael Burden opened a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan on the community's main square. Shortly after his museum opened, Burden abruptly left the Klan at the urging of a woman he fell in love with. Broke and homeless, he was taken in by Reverend David Kennedy, an African American preacher and leader in the Laurens community, who plunged his church headlong in a quest to save their former enemy. Journalist Courtney Hargrave uncovers the complex events behind this story, exploring the choices that led to Kennedy and Burden's friendship, the social factors that drive young men to join hate groups, the intersection of poverty and racism in the divided South, and the difference one person can make in confronting America's oldest sin

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