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Aug 10, 2018 · As such, he brought a Polaroid camera to his face-to-face meeting with David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and requested a group photo. Otherwise, wrote Stallworth in his...
- Ron Stallworth Gets Into Law Enforcemnt
- Joining The Ku Klux Klan
- The End of An Investigation
Ever since the Ku Klux Klan formed in 1865, the white supremacy group’s level of power has gone through waves. As a reaction to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the KKK in the 1970s had a strong following. They murdered civil rights workers and planted firebombs on school buses. There was the Greensboro massacre, where five protesters were k...
Stallworth was assigned to the department’s intelligence section, dealing with things like organized crime and criminal intelligence. Part of the job was to browse through newspapers, looking for anything worth investigating. Flipping through the paper one day in 1978, he saw a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan with a PO box. Unsure of how serious...
David Duke didn’t uncover Stallworth’s identity, but the investigation ended for a different reason. The local Ku Klux Klan asked Stallworth to be their new organizer. They thought he’d be good for the job since he had proven to be “a loyal and dedicated Klansman.” Stallworth was ready to accept, but the chief panicked. He asked for the investigati...
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Jun 2, 2018 · When black Colorado Springs Police Officer Ron Stallworth was assigned to protect Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke in 1979, he sought a subtle revenge against him for his racism. Asking...
The Real Story Behind That David Duke Visit In 'BlacKkKlansman' Is Wild. Spike Lee's latest film BlacKkKlansman puts the undercover work of Ron Stallworth, Colorado Springs' first black...
Aug 26, 2020 · In Blackkklansman, Ron Stallworth, assigned as security detail to David Duke during his visit to Colorado Springs, asks Duke to have his picture taken with him because "nobody's gonna believe me when I tell them that I was your personal bodyguard today". He asks his incognito colleague Philip 'Flip' Zimmerman to take a picture of the both of ...
Jul 11, 2018 · In the BlacKkKlansman movie, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) develops a relationship with an activist college student named Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier). Director Spike Lee has said that Patrice is fictional and was inspired by the women of the Black Power Movement.
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Aug 7, 2018 · During the nine-month investigation, Stallworth cultivated a unique relationship with David Duke, then the Grand Wizard of the Klan.