Klansville U.S.A.
North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country
2015
60
minutes
Documentary
★★★★★
★★★★★
3.48
Directed By:
Callie T. Wiser
Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
Language
English
Release Date
January 13, 2015
Cast
Oliver Platt
Narrator (voice)
David Cunningham
Self - author of "Klansville, U.S.A."
Rob Christensen
Self - journalist
Michael Frierson
Self
Estelle Sanders
Self - mayor of Roper, North Carolina
Patsy Sims
Self - author of 'The Klan'
Gary Freeze
Self - historian
Ned Cline
Self - journalist
Mark Potok
Self - editor-in-chief, Intelligence Report
George Wallace
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
David S. Cecelski
Self - historian
Sybil Jones
Self (voice) (archive footage)
George Dorsett
Self (archive footage)
C.P. Ellis
Self (archive footage)
Price Brown
Self - police officer in the 1960's
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
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