Superman versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled The Men of Hate, Rick Bowers
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Superman versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled The Men of Hate

Author: Rick Bowers

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 3 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/23/2012

Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - People & Places - United States

Synopsis

Journalist Rick Bowers has contributed to Time, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and his fascinating Spies of Mississippi—about the spy network that tried to take down the Civil Rights Movement—earned a starred review from Booklist. Here Bowers examines how, in the late 1940s, The Adventures of Superman radio show struck a powerful blow to the KKK when it aired episodes pitting the hero against the Klan in an effort to teach young listeners to stand up to bigotry.

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