Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan
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In the 1930s, when teens Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were coming of age, jobs were scarce, Nazis were on the rise in Europe, and the KKK was terrorizing innocent...
show moreFor nearly a decade during the 1940’s, Stetson Kennedy infiltrated and informed on the criminal activities of the Ku Klux Klan, taking their secrets to the airwaves through the Super Man Radio Show and testifying in court against the Klan. Kennedy reported those experiences in his book, The Klan Unmasked, published first in England and decades later by University Presses of Florida. He ran as a write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1950 on a platform of “not white supremacy but right supremacy.”
Endnote: Stetson Kennedy http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/index.html#about
Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate https://www.amazon.com/Superman-versus-Klux-Klan-Superhero/dp/1426309155
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