Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan / Bowers, Rick

Bowers traces Superman's evolution within the context of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, oppression from the New Deal of the 1930s, and the battle against fascism during WWII.

Presents a group of interconnected stories that come together in the 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan, following the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the powerless, the people who made Superman a media sensation, and the club that spread fear and hate.

Presents a group of interconnected stories that come together in the 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan, following the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the powerless, the people who made Superman a media sensation, and the club that spread fear and hate.