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...controversial climactic scene of the film cross-cuts Klansmen riding to the rescue of a virtuous white women being menaced by her crafty, sexualized biracial servant and another white family being threatened by their slaves. The audience is induced to conclude that the Klan is a force for good, contrary to oppressive Northern Reconstruction and its unfair distribution of powers to blacks...
...worshipped in the church of the Ku Klux Klan. So when Killen, a native of Philadelphia, Miss., became his local Klan's Kleagle (a top commander) in the 1960s, he finally felt ordained with genuine power--and he allegedly used it to recruit and organize more than a dozen Klansmen in the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers...
...Yorkers, Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, came to symbolize white resistance to the "Freedom Summer" campaign to register black voters. The case shocked much of the country and later inspired the 1988 Gene Hackman film Mississippi Burning. Yet neither Killen, called the "Preacher" by locals, nor other Klansmen ever faced state murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like the Preacher. One of the men who was convicted, Sam Bowers...
...Miss., in their station wagon. Outside Philadelphia, they were stopped by deputy sheriff Cecil Price, a Klansman, who put them in jail. According to testimony in the 1967 trial, Price plotted with Killen to release the three men that night, then have them tailed by Price, Killen and other Klansmen. The conspirators abducted the civil rights workers, whom Killen had allegedly ordered two Klansmen to shoot. The three bodies were buried on a nearby farm, where they were found a month and a half later by federal agents. The station wagon had been burned...
...black-led local commemoration of the Brown anniversary. "Mr. Elliott is very sincere," says Joe De Laine Jr., 71, son of the late Rev. Joseph De Laine, who led the fight to get Briggs v. Elliott heard in court but then had to flee South Carolina after Ku Klux Klansmen attacked his house. "But we [blacks] can't stand there muted for this commemoration, listening to others tell us what we and our families did." It will be hard to agree on how to achieve integration in Summerton when blacks and whites can't even agree on how to celebrate...