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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "KLANSVILLE, U.S.A."
January 13, 2015  | By David Bianculli

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

In the United States, the Ku Klux Klan managed to re-emerge to spread its hateful, hooded racism after two periods of relative dormancy. The first time the KKK rose again, like locusts, was after being portrayed as heroes in D.W. Griffith’s epic 1915 silent film, Birth of a Nation. The second time was in 1954, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of integration in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. That was why the KKK gathered momentum again, but this new documentary examines, and looks at the reasons behind, where: In North Carolina. Check local listings.

 
 
 
 
 
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