Modjeska School Deep Dive 3: Fergus Bordewich, author of Klan War
GROW 1340 Elmwood Ave., ColumbiaDeeper Dive with Fergus Bordewich, nationally acclaimed historian and author of Klan War, a 2023 publication detailing the 1877 use of the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause and the arrest of hundreds of white terrorists in South Carolina. Bordewich captures the Klan violence that threatened to overwhelm the entire state. It was so bad that legislators were afraid