Klansville U.S.A.

Klansville U.S.A.

60 mins | Documentary | Jan. 13, 2015

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.

Klansville U.S.A.

60 mins | Documentary | Jan. 13, 2015

Klansville U.S.A.
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers WGBH Boston
Original title Klansville U.S.A.
Directors Callie T. Wiser
Writers

Cast

Oliver Platt

as Narrator (voice)

David Cunningham

as Self - author of "Klansville, U.S.A."

Rob Christensen

as Self - journalist

Estelle Sanders

as Self - mayor of Roper, North Carolina

Patsy Sims

as Self - author of 'The Klan'

Gary Freeze

as Self - historian

Ned Cline

as Self - journalist

Mark Potok

as Self - editor-in-chief, Intelligence Report

George Wallace

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

David S. Cecelski

as Self - historian

Sybil Jones

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

George Dorsett

as Self (archive footage)

C.P. Ellis

as Self (archive footage)

Price Brown

as Self - police officer in the 1960's

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)