Klansville U.S.A.

Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Oliver Platt

Self - 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)