The film capsulizes the history of the Klan’s earlier incarnations, and the rampant violence of its branches in the deep South in the ’60s, and sets these in contrast to the relatively orderly, politically minded organization in North Carolina. Specifically, it’s about the mid-’60s North Carolina Klan, which grew from nothing to nearly 10,000 members in just two years, in what was supposedly the South’s most progressive state. Wiser’s “Klansville U.S.A.” (based partly on the book of that title by David Cunningham) is about the third wave of Ku Klux Klan activity, which came in the 1960s in response to the civil rights movement. And much of it looks like the civil rights rallies and marches that were taking place at the same time, except for the white robes and the occasional 60-foot burning cross.Īn “American Experience” documentary making its premiere on PBS on Tuesday night, Callie T.
It more often resembles home movies of a Sunday outing: picnics, dancing, cooking a pig. “Klansville U.S.A.” is a documentary about the Ku Klux Klan, but it’s short on images of terrorists on horseback and bodies hanging from trees.
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