SYNOPSIS:

D. W. Griffith’s film, The Birth Of A Nation, shocked America and the Klan used it to enlist others to join in their fight against Blacks, Indians, Catholics, and Jews. The Klan lynched those who tried to mix with their Anglo-Saxon Protestant race. Segregation was part of their demands.

The Klan members wore white robes and cone hats. they burned crosses after their threatening motorcades.

North Carolina, 1957, the Klan tried to show it’s force by attempting to blow up the home of an NAACP supporter. The Blacks united and defeated the Klan.

North Carolina, 1958, the Klan tried to put the Lumbee Indians in their place. The indians also united and defeated the Klan.

The Klan kept their motorcades and cross burnings despite their defeats. They claimed the Constitution gave them their right to bear arms and have their hateful opinions.

1967, one of the Klan leaders was now in a power struggle with another Klan member for the title of Grand Dragon. A suspicious car accident kills one of the men involved in this struggle for superiority.

Mobile, Alabama, 1984, the Klan believe they had the right to kill a Black man. They did so and one was arrested and dies for his crime in the electric chair.

Today the Klan uses the web for communication and enlistments. The social network has changed how the Klan now operates.

SONGS: BELIEFS, MONGRELS