In Nancy MacLean’ Behind The Mask of Chivalry, an in depth case study of the Georgia branches of the Ku Klux Klan is undertaken to get a full picture of what exactly the clan was and was after in the 1920s. In the introduction of the book, MacLean states the purposes for writing this book. “The goal of this study, then, is to situate Klan members in the world of their day, to take seriously what they did, and to listen carefully to what they said. In this way, we can learn a great deal about what made them tick.” The importance of this study cannot be understated enough. Typically, when studying the clan, we tend to look over the nuances of why they did what they did. We tend to only touch on the surface of why they felt so strongly about some
