by Todd Tucker '90 (Loyola
Press)
During two days of riots in May 1924, Notre Dame students took
on the Indiana Ku Klux Klan. The KKK wasn't reacting to the students'
race but to their religion -- Catholicism. "Look around: they
are already taking over the schools, flaunting our laws, changing
the very nature of the United States, a Protestant country at
its birth," a KKK leader asserted at a state rally in the early
1920s.
Here the author details how and why the two institutions came
to loggerheads at the height of anti-Catholicism in America. The
book continues through the aftermath of the three-day confrontation
in downtown South Bend, including the football team's winning
Rose Bowl appearance and the Indiana KKK's eventual implosion.
(November 2004)
