swamps. But he was afflicted by a foolhardy devotion to his cause. Kennedy would go on to become the only gentile member of the Anti- Defamation Leagues postwar effort to smite bigotry. (He coined the phrase "Frown Power," a centerpiece of the ADLs peer-pressure cam- paign, which encouraged people to pointedly frown when they heard bigoted speech.) He became the only white correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier, the countrys largest black newspaper. (He wrote a column about the race struggle in the South under the pseudonym Daddy Mention-a black folk hero who, as myth told it, could out- run the blast of a sheriff s shotgun.) What drove Kennedy was a hatred of small-mindedness, igno- rance, obstructionism, and intimidation-which, in his view, were displayed by no organization more proudly than by the Ku Klux Klan. Kennedy saw the Klan as the terrorist arm of the white estab- lishment itself. This struck him as an intractable problem, for a vari- ety of reasons. The Klan was in cahoots with political, business, and law-enforcement leaders. The public was frightened and felt power-     less to act against the Klan. And the few anti-hate groups that existed at the time had little leverage or even information about the Klan. As Kennedy later wrote, he was particularly chagrined by one key fact about the Klan: "Almost all of the things written on the subject were editorials, not exposés. The writers were against the Klan, all right, but they had precious few inside facts about it." So Kennedy decided-as any foolhardy, fearless, slightly daft anti- bigot would-to go undercover and join the Ku Klux Klan. In Atlanta, he started hanging around a pool hall "whose habitués," as he later wrote, "had the frustrated, cruel look of the Klan about them." A man named Slim, a taxi driver, sat beside him at the bar one afternoon. "What this country needs is a good Kluxing," Slim said. "Thats the only way to keep the niggers, kikes, Catholic dagos, and Reds in their place!"