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So I’m listening to this great book:
1: the 20th century Klan wasn’t doing so hot until it hired a pr/sales/marketing firm (HQ: Atlanta’s Flatiron bldg)
1: the 20th century Klan wasn’t doing so hot until it hired a pr/sales/marketing firm (HQ: Atlanta’s Flatiron bldg)
2. So this firm got Klan membership up All Over the country. But the ppl at the firm also scammed the Klan. Overcharged; became robe vendors without bidding robe contract etc.
3. There came a TN whistleblower who got mad at Klan. Not for being racist (he was racist too.) but for being a marketing scheme and trying to form militia/shadow government.
4. (The reporters in the house are gg love this one) When he decided to blow the whistle, he went to a New York paper, not anybody in Atlanta or TN. It’s unclear exactly why but prolly bc southern papers wouldn’t denounce the klan
Fulton county library has audio version https://fulcolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Selling%20hate&searchType=smart&_ga=2.212347924.124635975.1618062988-1136834048.1618062988
I mean this book is full of the stuff we see today: a lying pr firm (whoops I mean spin), trash newspaper puff pieces (Even New York papers swallowed the spin sometimes), xenophobia, racism snd single-level marketing
Here’s the Buckhead mansion that Mary Elizabeth Tyler, one half of the klan’s PR firm, built with her klan pr loot http://buckheadheritage.com/mary-elizabeth-tyler-house/
Some domestic terrorist orgs get hooked on the letter K. Others on the letter Q.
And oooh an arrest in a “house of ill repute” aka “notorious underground resort” at “185 south Pryor st”. Maybe the street has been renumbered since 1919. But if not, it’s now a parking lot downtown between @gacities and @FultonInfo
