Stetson Kennedy

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Stetson Kennedy

Stetson Kennedy (born October 5, 1916 in Jacksonville , Florida , † August 27, 2011 there ) was an American author and human rights activist .

Life

Stetson Kennedy was raised in Jacksonville, Florida, the youngest of five children. He saw himself early on as a universal dissident and wrote books and articles about bigotry . Kennedy became the only non-Jewish member of the human rights organization Anti-Defamation League . After the Second World War he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan ; the historian Wyn Craig Wade described it as the single most important factor that prevented a revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the north after the war .

He was the only white correspondent to write a column on the racial struggle for the Pittsburgh Courier .

Stetson Kennedy on his 93rd birthday

criticism

Author Ben Green , while researching a book that Stetson Kennedy worked on, found that some of Kennedy's own records differ from his book The Klan Unmasked . In particular, he allegedly reported results of research he did as a reporter as the results of undercover investigations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ News - Jacksonville News, Sports and Entertainment -. (No longer available online.) In: jacksonville.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jacksonville.com
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.chron.com
  3. ↑ Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics: Surprising Answers to Everyday Questions of Life , 2nd Edition. Riemann Verlag Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-570-50064-0 ; P. 96.
  4. ↑ Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics: Surprising Answers to Everyday Questions of Life , 2nd Edition. Riemann Verlag Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-570-50064-0 ; P. 86.
  5. ↑ Interview with "Freakonomics" author: "We are leading economics back to its roots". In: Spiegel Online . February 13, 2006, accessed January 29, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt: Hoodwinked? In: nytimes.com. January 8, 2006, accessed January 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Stetson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Jacksonville , Florida
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2011
Place of death Jacksonville , Florida