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Klansville U.S.A.
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Klansville U.S.A.

2015-01-13 · 60 min · ★ 6.8

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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.

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Directors
Callie T. Wiser
Production companies
GBH
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Oliver PlattOliver PlattSelf - Narrator (voice)
David CunninghamSelf - Author of "Klansville, U.S.A."
Rob ChristensenSelf - Journalist
Michael FriersonSelf
Estelle SandersSelf - Mayor of Roper, North Carolina
Patsy SimsSelf - Author of 'The Klan'
Gary FreezeSelf - Historian
Ned ClineSelf - Journalist
Mark PotokSelf - Editor-in-Chief, Intelligence Report
George WallaceGeorge WallaceSelf (archive Footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive Footage)
David S. CecelskiSelf - Historian
Sybil JonesSelf (voice) (archive Footage)
George DorsettSelf (archive Footage)
C.P. EllisSelf (archive Footage)
Price BrownSelf - Police Officer in the 1960's
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive Footage)

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