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Item Nr: B 114995 Title: Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Bowers, Rick
Length: 160 Prod/Pub: National Geographic
Copyright: 2012 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Presents a group of interconnected stories that come together in the 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan, following the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the powerless, the people who made Superman a media sensation, and the club that spread fear and hate. Superheroes. Superman (Fictional character). Comic books, strips, etc. Social aspects. Hate groups. Racist organizations. AR 9.6 RC 10.0 Lexile 1300 IL 6-10.

  Subjects:
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  260 - CARTOONS AND CARICATURES
  589 - HEROES/HEROINES
  666 - KU KLUX KLAN
  1683 - LEXILE 1300-1399
  1439 - PREJUDICES/PREJUDICE
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  894 - PROPAGANDA
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  914 - RADIO BROADCASTING
  1005 - SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES