Cover of BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

by Shaun Swedenburg

120 pages2020Independently PublishedISBN 9798657378009

About this book

The film starts with footage from Gone with the Wind (1939) of wounded Confederate soldiers lying in the streets of Atlanta, Georgia which transitions to a black-and-white PSA, [4] where a man (named as Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard) comically fumbles a hate-filled screed decrying minorities.[5] The film then jumps to the central plot.In 1972, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Assigned to work in the records room, he faces racial discrimination from his coworkers. After he requests a transfer to undercover work, he is assigned to infiltrate a local rally where national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) gives a speech. At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, president of the Black Student Union at Colorado College. While she takes Ture to his hotel, Patrice is stopped by patrolman Andy Landers, a racist officer in Stallworth's precinct, who threatens Ture and gropes Patrice.

Publication Details

Publisher
Independently Published
Published
2020
Pages
120
ISBN
9798657378009
Language
en

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