Stetson Kennedy

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

Life

Stetson Kennedy grew up the youngest of five children in Jacksonville, Florida. He understood at an early age as a universal dissident and wrote books and articles about the bigotry. Kennedy was 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 him as the single most important factor that has prevented a revival of the Ku Klux Klan after the war in the north.

He wrote the only white correspondent a column about the racial struggle for the Pittsburgh Courier.

Criticism

The author Ben Green asked when doing research for a book, in which Stetson Kennedy staff was noted that some of Kennedy's own recordings of his book I rode vary with the Ku Klux Klan (The Klan Unmasked ). In particular, he is said to have later issued findings from research that he has done as a reporter as results of undercover investigations.