American Experience

Name: Klansville, USA
Duration: 3300000 s
Cast: Oliver Platt, David Cunningham, Rob Christensen

Klansville, USA

Directed by Callie T. Wiser

TV-PG

S27 • E2 Jan 12, 2015 55m

7.1

Investigate 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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Cast of Klansville, USA

Oliver PlattSelf - Narrator
David CunninghamSelf - Author of 'Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan'
Rob ChristensenSelf - Journalist
Michael FriersonSelf - Filmmaker, FBI KKK
Estelle SandersSelf - Mayor of Roper, NC
Patsy SimsSelf - Author of 'The Klan'
Gary FreezeSelf - Historian
Ned ClineSelf - Journalist
Mark PotokSelf - Editor-in-Chief, 'Intelligence Report'
George WallaceSelf - Governor of Alabama
Robert JonesSelf - Leader of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan
Martin Luther King Jr.Self - Civil Rights Leader
David S. CecelskiSelf - Historian
Sybil JonesSelf
George DorsettSelf - Ku Klux Klan Preacher
C.P. EllisSelf - Former Klan Member
Price BrownSelf - Police Officer in the 1960s
Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf - US President
Matt MurphySelf - Ku Klux Klan Preacher
William Orville EatonSelf - Accused Killer of Viola Liuzzo
Eugene ThomasSelf - Accused Killer of Viola Liuzzo
Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr.Self - Accused Killer of Viola Liuzzo
Robert M. SheltonSelf
Philip R. ManuelSelf - Economic Crime Investigatin Expert
J. Edgar HooverSelf - FBI Director
Callie T. WiserDirector / Writer / Producer
David EsparWriter
David CunninghamWriter
Molly JacobsProducer