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	Stetson Kennedy
		Stetson Kennedy was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1916.
		Stetson Kennddy is honored by the Society Of Professional Journalists as a Fellow of the Society.
		Stetson Kennedy was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame Tallahassee, Florida on Wednesday, April 6, 2005, Secretary of State, Glenda E. Hood and Governor, Jeb Bush inducted Stetson Kennedy into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
	www.stetsonkennedy.com (579 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Stetson Kennedy
		Stetson Kennedy (born October 5, 1916 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an award-winning author and human rights activist from Florida.
		Kennedy is also known as a pioneering folklorist, a labor activist, and environmentalist.
		Kennedy was one of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Stetson_Kennedy (1053 words)

	Perspective: The Ballad of Stetson Kennedy
		Kennedy, a master folklorist or, as he prefers to call himself, "po' folkist," was her boss.
		Kennedy himself is at work on six different manuscripts in his upstairs study overlooking the lake, everything from a book of Key West folklore to an autobiography called Dissident at Large.
		Kennedy's skills with a wire recorder (this was before the days of tape) and knowledge of the conditions in the turpentine camps got him invited to testify in Geneva before a U.N. Commission on forced labor in 1952.
	sptimes.com /2004/03/07/news_pf/Perspective/The_Ballad_of_Stetson.shtml (2067 words)

	The Spinnaker
		Author and political activist Stetson Kennedy, known for his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1940s, is returning to the University of North Florida 1:30 p.m.
		Kennedy's visit, sponsored by the department of English and foreign languages, will inform students about how his infiltration of the KKK and his current fight against home front terrorism.
		Kennedy was taken to St. Luke's hospital where he was treated for lacerations.
	www.unf.edu /groups/spinnaker/archives/2002/apr03/stetson.html (198 words)

	Preservation - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		A native Floridian, Stetson Kennedy was one of the first to devote his life to public folklore work and to exploring the rich traditional culture of Florida.
		Kennedy began his career as a writer while attending the University of Florida in Gainesville, though later pursued studies at the New College for Social Research in New York and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
		Stetson Kennedy is a founding member and past president of the Florida Folklore Society and a recipient of the Florida Folk Heritage Award (1988), NAACP Freedom Award (1992), Florida Governor’s Heartland Award (1999), Benjamin Spock Peacemaker Award (2001), and many other awards.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /preservation/folklife/awardDetails.cfm?id=50 (671 words)

	After Appomattox : How the South Won the War - A book from the University Press of Florida
		Stetson Kennedy's premise--argued and documented here as never before--is that the verdict of Appomattox was largely reversed during Reconstruction.
		In this dramatic contribution to the history of Reconstruction, Kennedy brings to light thirty-three "long-buried" testimonials from victims and perpetrators of Ku Klux Klan terror that were taken by a Joint Congressional Committee in 1871-72.
		Stetson Kennedy is the author of Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, The Klan Unmasked, and Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was, all reissued in paperback by UPF.
	www.upf.com /archive/kennedy.html (484 words)

	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - ...
		The hero was a man named Stetson Kennedy, a white Floridian from an old-line family who from an early age sought to assail racial and social injustices.
		Kennedy has been duly celebrated for his activism: his friend Woody Guthrie once wrote a song about him, and a Stetson Kennedy Day was recently declared in St. John's County, Fla., where Kennedy, 89, still lives.
		Kennedy had also amassed a great deal of literature about the Klan and other hate groups that he joined, but his own archives suggest that he joined most of these groups by mail.
	www.freakonomics.com /times0108col.php (1275 words)

	Florida Folklife: Biography of Stetson Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stetson Kennedy, one of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the twentieth century, was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1916.
		He left the University of Florida in 1937 to join the WPA Florida Writers' Project, and was soon, at the age of 21, put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies.
		His contributions to the preservation and propagation of folk culture is the subject of a dissertation, "Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy" (University of Pennsylvania, 1992), by Peggy A. Bulger, who assumed the directorship of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 1999.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/flwpahtml/ffbio.html (242 words)

	ACE: Stetson Kennedy: Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kennedy felt that Green’s motive in researching the murders was aimed at whitewashing the role of Federal law enforcement in the case.
		Letters in support of Stetson Kennedy promptly appeared from, among others, Studs Terkel, Morris Dees (of the Southern Poverty Law Center), Hodding Carter, Peggy Bulger (Director of the American Folklife Center and whose doctoral dissertation subject was Kennedy), and Anna Wood and Nathan Salsburg of the Association for Cultural Equity.
		Stetson Kennedy, in all the delightful years I’ve known him, has always questioned authority — whether it be the alderman or the president.
	www.culturalequity.org /ace/kennedy_letters.html (1190 words)

	UIowa - The Stetson Kennedy Collection of Progressive Party Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials.
		Writer and political activist Stetson Kennedy was born in Florida in 1916.
		Kennedy has worked as a newspaper writer and columnist for papers such as the New York Times and the New York Post.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc400/MsC376/MsC_kennedy.html (439 words)

	Race Matters - The original 'angry young man' still finding wrongs to right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Now, with the Internet as ally, Kennedy is on a rampage again, this time to save Mother Earth: No planet, no human rights, no nothing, argues Kennedy from his cedar cabin on stilts that he shares with his wife, Joyce, their five cats and assorted wild friends on a swamp-like lake in fading Old Florida.
		Kennedy mocked the KKK as the Koo Koo Klan and the Dumb Klux, proving the power of ridicule as an antidote for social poison.
		Kennedy calls his world Beluthahatchee, which can be described as an Afro-Florida word rooted in fl folklore for a place like Camelot or Shangri-La. It is here; it is nowhere; it is everywhere.
	www.racematters.org /stetsonkennedy.htm (1238 words)

	The Klan Unmasked By Stetson Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kennedy saw first hand the working of the Klan when a maid in his house was taken for a ride by the Klan and badly tortured.
		Kennedy developed a hatred for the Ku Klux Klan and wanted to do all he could to limit the influence of and put a stop to its hate mongering.
		Kennedy noted that the Klan was actually the handiwork of the rich Southern plantation holders, who wanted to keep the fl labor force under chains similar to those of slavery.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/papers/stack4_12.html (567 words)

	Spider Tactics » Stetson Kennedy, American Hero
		Stetson Kennedy risked his life to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940’s.
		Kennedy funneled information about the “Dumb Klux” to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, but often went beyond informer to agent provocateur.
		Kennedy gave Superman the klan’s secret passwords, and before the Invisible Empire knew it, 10-year-olds all over America knew KKK code.
	www.spidertactics.com /archives/93 (430 words)

	USF - Lib - Development - Library Link - Winter 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stetson Kennedy, Florida author, journalist and lecturer, charmed audiences with his easy-going manner and quick wit during the
		Kennedy said that rather than the straight interview format, he often relied on the technique of engaging two people in a conversation which he would record.
		Bigbee is a writer and photographer based in Jacksonville and she collaborates with Kennedy on lecture tours and other projects.
	www.lib.usf.edu /development/newslett/winter98/art03.html (508 words)

	Stetson Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With a life of literary works including his classic book on Florida folklore, “Palmetto Country,” Kennedy is best known for his exposure of the Klu Klux Klan in “The Klan Unmasked” and other works that aided in the fight against discrimination in the South.
		Kennedy's illustrious career represents a deep commitment to both the heritage and the future of Florida.
		The Stetson Kennedy Foundation, chartered by the State of Florida and headquartered in Beluthahatchee, is dedicated to carrying on his legacy of struggle on behalf of "Fellow Man and Mother Earth.” A native of Jacksonville, the 88-year-old Kennedy currently resides in in St. Johns County, where he is working on his autobiography.
	www.florida-arts.org /programs/halloffame/StetsonKennedy.htm (112 words)

	USF - Lib - Spccoll - Library Link - Winter 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the March 21 reception for Kennedy, Dr. Mormino recounted a widely held view that "As a citizen, Stetson Kennedy fervently believed that the role of a critic should be to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted."
		Kennedy introduces screenwriter Danilo Bach to President Castor during a June visit to the USF Library to gather material for a film based on the author's Klan Unmasked book and life story.
		If books could be travelweary, the Stetson Kennedy collection might say "do not disturb" for a proper rest, but as their former owner notes, "It is most gratifying to have my life's work adopted by the USF Library, where I am confident it will be in the best of hands, for both safekeeping and utilization.
	www.lib.usf.edu /development/newslett/winter96/s01.html (1361 words)

	Stetson Kennedy to be honored on 85th birthday
		The Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice is holding a celebration to honor author, activist, and folk hero Stetson Kennedy on Saturday, October 6th, from 2-8pm at the Peace Education Center of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice Teaching Farm in Hampton, Florida.
		He left the University of Florida in 1937 to join the WPA Florida Writers' Project, and at the age of 21, was put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies.
		Kennedy's first book, Palmetto Country, appeared in 1942 as a volume in the American Folkways Series.
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/2001_09/20010913.html (319 words)

	Stetson Kennedy
		Stetson Kennedy was born in Jackson, Florida, in 1916.
		Kennedy became a newspaper reporter and wrote investigative articles for the New York Post.
		A member of the NAACP, Kennedy was a strong opponent of racism and in 1950 "campaigned for the U.S. Senate from Florida as an independent 'colour-blind' candidate on a platform calling for a 'live and let live' foreign policy and total equality at home."
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAstetson.htm (1447 words)

	Amazon.com: The Klan Unmasked: Books: Stetson Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stetson Kennedy here tells the story of his post-World War II years as an undercover agent in the KKK (where he rose to Kleagle rank).
		Kennedy outlines his infiltration into the headquarters chapter of the KKK in Atlanta and the Columbia Brownshirt organization there, and his undercover hob-knobbing with violent racists and hatemongers, and the colorful illiterates and semi-literates that made up the membership of the Klan and their fellow travellers.
		During the period of time that author Stetson Kennedy served as an undercover FBI agent, Gay Edgar Hoover had little taste, or interest in, using his little Hoovers to unmask those with whom he was in sympathy--The Klan.
	www.amazon.com /Klan-Unmasked-Stetson-Kennedy/dp/0813009863 (1922 words)

	Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kennedy is a surname used by many individuals, families, and clans.
		The probable area for the first use of the name Kennedy is in and around the Irish counties of Clare and Tipperary.
		Division of Kennedy, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kennedy (481 words)

	Florida Folklorist, Social Activist and Writer Stetson Kennedy to Speak on March 25
		Kennedy, 88, is a native Floridian who directed the state’s Folklore Unit of the Federal Writers’ Project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s.
		The research done by Kennedy, Hurston and others was carried out from 1937 to 1942, producing one-of-a-kind sound recordings of ordinary men and women, photographs, researchers’ notes and reports, and other documentary materials, which are now preserved at the Library of Congress.
		Kennedy’s 1942 book, “Palmetto Country,” is a detailed survey of Florida folklife derived from the data he and his Federal Writers’ Project colleagues compiled.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2005/05-057.html (644 words)

	Stetson Kennedy and John Egerton, conducted by Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990. Interview ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stetson Kennedy and John Egerton, conducted by Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990.
		Veteran activist Stetson Kennedy describes his desire to strike down segregation in the American South and some of the ways he translated this impulse into action, including his infiltration of racist organizations.
		Kennedy describes himself as utterly opposed to segregation and racism, and his total devotion to a broad cause allowed him to avoid the internecine battles of the civil rights era.
	docsouth.unc.edu /sohp/A-354/menu.html (229 words)

	Terra Sigillata
		Miss Jill wrote to tell me that Mon Jan 30 was to be the inaugural fundraising event for the new Stetson Kennedy Foundation at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
		I enjoyed a lovely afternoon with Jill showing me all of Stetson's memorabilia, feeding raw catfish to "Blue Boy," the resident blue heron, and speaking with Dr Lomax who had awoken from a respite for a cold she was fighting.
		It was a hoot to watch Jill go through her address book (no newfangled Palm Pilot for this Florida gal) and sift through all of the entries for "Guthrie" until she was able to locate a relative who had a cell phone number for Abe, Arlo's son and band member.
	scienceblogs.com /terrasig/2006/09/stetson_kennedy_revisited_lite.php (3088 words)

	StetsonKennedyAndSartre
		That is exactly what Stetson Kennedy did in the late 1940's.
		Kennedy had trouble finding a publisher for his books.
		Kennedy some questions, first by phone and then in person on April 15th, 2004, at a ceremony in which his homestead, Beluthahatchee, was officially designated a Literary Landmark by the
	billectric.org /StetsonKennedyAndSartre.html (408 words)

	Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990. Interview A-354. Southern Oral History Program Collection ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And I was told that the Kennedy boys, there were eleven of them, and no girls.
		There were eleven Kennedy boys in Statesboro, Georgia, and together with their cousins, the Joneses, they built the first church in that county, Bullock County, Baptist Church.
		She was into Dickens and all of these leather bound things, including a volume of the Stetson kindred, showing that we're all descended from someone named Cornett Robert.
	docsouth.unc.edu /sohp/A-354/A-354.html (9531 words)

	LitKicks: An Interview With Stetson Kennedy
		In fact, Kennedy says some of the Klan robes weren't quite long enough to cover the shoes and trouser cuffs of what looked suspiciously like police uniforms.
		Kennedy some questions, first by phone and then in person on April 15th, 2004, at a ceremony in which his homestead, Beluthahatchee, was officially named as a Literary Landmark, in part because of Kennedy’s work and in part because Woody Guthrie wrote so many songs there.
		Stetson Kennedy: I wrote a book called Palmetto Country in 1942, and Alan Lomax, the music historian, read it and liked it, so he passed it on to Woody.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=StetsonKennedy (1229 words)

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