The Black Klansman (1966)

Directors

Ted V. Mikels

The story

During the civil rights movement, a light-skinned African-American man, Jerry Ellworth (Richard Gilden, a white actor), is a Los Angeles jazz musician with a white girlfriend, Andrea (Rima Kutner). Meanwhile, in a Turnersville, Alabama diner, a young black man, Delbert Madison (Kirk Kirksey), attempts to exercise his civil rights, which has just passed at the federal level, by sitting at a local diner, where he is observed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, including Exalted Cyclops Rook (Harry Lovejoy). By night and in Klan robes, they shoot Delbert and firebomb a church, killing Jerry's daughter by his deceased wife.

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