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After I began reading the book My American Century by Studs Terkel, I quickly became interested in reading further. At first, I thought it would be a long boring book to have to read, but I soon was very anxious to continue my reading. The reading that I person ....

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.... and hostility toward someone- that someone happened to be blacks. The reading doesn't really concentrate on all of the things he did as a Klan member, except to say that he did particularly “hate” one of the black people in town more than most-Ann Atwater. He claimed to hate her specifically because every time he went into town, she was leading some kind of demonstration. I didn't think she would really be all that important to the rest of the story, but in my eyes she's the most important. To make a long story short, Mr. Ellis began going to meetings for the city council or something of that sort. It was there that he decided he could s ....