Black Klansman

race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime

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Ron Stallworth: Black Klansman (2018)

191 pages

English language

Published Nov. 28, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-250-29904-8
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OCLC Number:
1019738920

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The true story of Detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who in 1978 went undercover to investigate the KKK.

4 editions

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This book was fairly well written, though he did get repetitive a few times. Having listened to the audio book I always seem to note repetition more than when I read dead trees. This audio book not having good transitions from CD to CD also can lead to it being halfway the second time through Track 1 before I realize I'm back in track 1 and he's not just being repetitive again. returnreturnIt wasn't as exciting nor humors as I had expected it to be. A lot of what it is was over reaching big government police getting into to private citizens life. The KKK is an awful organization and from Stallworth's story most of them are idiots. The part where Stallworth talks about having to be a body guard for David Duke as himself a black cop, rather than as the undercover "white" guy he's been talking to on …

Subjects

  • Race relations
  • White supremacy movements
  • Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
  • African American police
  • Undercover operations
  • Hate crimes

Places

  • United States