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Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, at the Jewish Austin Community Center, 7300 Hart Lane, Austin, TX 78731
512.735.8000
Inspiring and entertaining, the Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival annually delivers a variety of opportunities for the community to learn and experience Jewish literary, culture and performing arts.
The Festival is one of the city's leading cultural and literary events, attracting a large and varied audience of over 10,000 people of all ages and is recognized as one of the largest Jewish Book & Arts Festivals in the nation.
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on November 5 at 11:00 am.
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston, 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX 77096.
713.729.3200
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on November 9, at 12:30 PM.
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta - Zaban Park, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338.
678.812.4000
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on November 14 at 7:00 PM.
Memphis Jewish Community Center, 6560 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38138, at the corner of Aaron Brenner Drive and Poplar.
901.761.0810
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on January 15, 2018 at 1:30 PM.
Central Queens Y, 67-09 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375.
718.268.5011
Engaging The Community with Exceptional Authors and Books
Patricia Bernstein
Ten Dollars to HateThursday, February 1, 2018 | 7 pm
Aaron Family JCC
$10 in advance | $15 at the doorTen Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s - by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War - and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas district attorney, demonstrated that Klansmen could be punished for taking the law into their own hands - in this case, for the vicious flogging of a young World War I veteran.
The 1920s Klan numbered in the millions and infiltrated politics and law enforcement across the United States, not just in the Deep South. Several states elected Klan-sponsored governors and US senators. Klansmen engaged in extreme violence against whites as well as blacks, promoted outrageous bigotry against various ethnic groups, and boycotted non-Klan businesses.
A few courageous public officials tried to make Klansmen pay for their crimes, notably after Klan assaults in California and Texas and two torture-murders in Louisiana. All failed until September 1923 when Dan Moody convicted and won significant prison time for five Klansmen in a tense courtroom in Georgetown, Texas. Moody became a national sensation overnight and went on to become the youngest governor of Texas at the age of 33.
The Georgetown cases were the beginning of the end for this iteration of the Klan. Two years later, the head of the Klan in Indiana was convicted of murdering a young woman. Membership dwindled almost as quickly as it had grown, but the Klan's poisonous influence lingered through the decades that followed. Ten Dollars to Hate explores this pivotal - and brutal - chapter in the history of America.
Presented with Dallas Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Book Council
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on February 4, 2018 at 9:30 AM.
Congregation Etz Chaim, 1710 S. HIghland Ave., Lombard, IL 60148.
630.627.3912
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on May 3, 2018 at 10:00 AM.
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Boynton Beach
8500 Jog Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33472
561.740.9000
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, on May 3, 2018 at 7:00 PM.
Mandel Jewish Community Center
Palm Beach Gardens
5221 Hood Road
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
561.712.5200
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, at the Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
732.545.6484
Patricia Bernstein will read from her new book, Ten Dollars To Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought The Clan, 11 A.M. at Del Mar College East in the Fine Arts Center Music Building, Wolfe Recital Hall, in Corpus Christi.
Held on the first Wednesday of every month, High Noon Talks highlight interesting and often untold topics through this casual lunch-time lecture.
Join author Patricia Bernstein for a talk on her book Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan. The book chronicles the actions of brave individuals who stood up during the troubling 1920s in Texas. An era that most people associate with jazz, flappers, bootleg liquor or progressivism, was also a time of fear and brutality thanks to the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan in Texas.
Support for the Bullock Museum's exhibitions and education programs provided by the Texas State History Museum Foundation.
1800 Congress Ave.
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 936 - 8746
What's the legacy of white supremacy? In his book Tomlinson Hill, Houston Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson describes his slave-holding family's cotton planation and traces slavery's echoes through the descendants of the people, both white and black, who lived there. And in this year's Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan, Patricia Bernstein explores the history of racial violence, the KKK and lynchings. With social activist Larry Payne, they'll discuss Texas race relations and race-related violence, both past and present. The last in a series of Summer events co-sponsored by Houston Public Libraries and the Houston Chronicle.
Ben Hall interviews Patricia Bernstein, author of Ten Dollars to Hate, during his live show.
Meet Patricia Bernstein, the author of the new book Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan, about Dan Moody and the Klan trials of 1923 and 1924. Ms. Bernstein will discuss the story and books will be available for sale at the Courthouse. This event will take place in the actual courthouse where the Klan trials occurred.
Live interview with Patricia Bernstein on The Press Pool, the POTUS Politics channel 124, SiriusXM satellite radio.
BOOK SIGNING/READING FOR HOUSTONIAN’S NEW BOOK ON THE KU KLUX KLAN, MARCH 17, AT BRAZOS BOOKSTORE
Patricia Bernstein, Houston author and historian, will be reading from her new book, Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Ku Klux Klan, on Friday, March 17, at 7 PM at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet Street. The book is being published by Texas A & M University Press.
Ten Dollars to Hate, in a remarkably apt tale for our own time, tells the story of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, the only mass-movement incarnation of the Klan with millions of members all across the United States, not just in the Deep South. The 1920s Klan was not only racist, but also virulently anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant. The group also set itself up as a moral arbiter, punishing violators of traditional moral codes, such as bootleggers, moonshiners, vagrants and gamblers, wife beaters and deserters, abortionists and adulterers. The 1920s Klan took over law enforcement and the municipal government of many cities and towns across the country, elected Klan-sponsored governors and sent Klan-sponsored senators to Washington.
The book is framed by the story of one brutal assault by klansmen and the trials that followed. On Easter Sunday 1923, klansmen kidnapped and viciously flogged a young World War I veteran who was accused of having an affair with a local widow. Both were white.
A 29-year old Texas district attorney and forgotten hero, Dan Moody, became the first prosecutor in the U.S. to succeed in convicting klansmen for assault and getting them serious prison time in a series of tense trials in Georgetown. Moody became a national sensation overnight and, in 1926, was elected the youngest governor Texas ever had at the age of 33. There was even talk of running him on a national ticket with Franklin Roosevelt. Moody used his intimate knowledge of the law and his powerful courtroom presence to confront and defeat one of the great evils of his time – serving as an inspiration for our own difficult times.
“It tells the story of how select individuals had the courage to stand up and oppose popular extremism.”
Comprehensive details of the March 17 event can be found on on the Brazos Bookstore website. For more information for the public, contact Brazos Bookstore at 713-523-0701.
Live interview with Patricia Bernstein on Houston Matters, KUHF, 88.7FM, in Houston, Texas.
