Stetson Kennedy
publication date: Friday, October 11, 2024 (part of October 2024)
category: Literature
clue: He traded his family's expensive hat for a pointy white hood in order to expose what it was like inside.
explanation: Kennedy, a member of the wealthy Stetson hat family, famously infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in order to report their activities to authorities and hold them up to public ridicule, including in his book Southern Exposure. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Denise Sawicki