In the early 1940s, while everyone was paying attention to conflicts in Europe and Asia, Stetson Kennedy discovered his own fight at home. Inspired by guilt from having to sit out the war (on account of a back injury), by the poverty and racial injustice he witnessed in his native Florida and by the "racist terrorists" in his own backyard, Kennedy used the name of his dead uncle as a reference and infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. He told their secrets to the world, publishing I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan in 1954. The author of nine books on the South and folklore, Kennedy, who died Aug. 27 at 94, was also a committed social activist.
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