Backlash: Race and the American Dream chronicles the controversial candidacy of the former Grand Wizard of the Knight of the Ku Klux Klan in his bid in 1991 to the United States Senate from ... Read allBacklash: Race and the American Dream chronicles the controversial candidacy of the former Grand Wizard of the Knight of the Ku Klux Klan in his bid in 1991 to the United States Senate from Louisiana.Backlash: Race and the American Dream chronicles the controversial candidacy of the former Grand Wizard of the Knight of the Ku Klux Klan in his bid in 1991 to the United States Senate from Louisiana.