Ron Stallworth - Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of Lifetime

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Published by Century 2018

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Copyright Ron Stallworth 2014. All rights reserved.

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Ron Stallworth has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

First published in United Kingdom by Century in 2018

Originally published under the same title in 2014 by Police and Fire Publishing.
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ISBN 9781780899299

For my wife, Patsy Terrazas-Stallworth, and Mr. Elroy Bode

If one black man, aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, open-, and liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools they truly are, then imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish. Everything that follows was accomplished despite, and in spite of, the supremacists claim in some cases to being highly educated, having more intelligence, and being far superior in every way to blacks and Jews, and anyone else they deemed inferior. My investigation of the KKK convinced me that sooner rather than later we would, in fact, overcome those who tried to define minorities by their own personal failings of racial, ethnic bias, bigotry, religious preference, and the false belief that people of color and others who did not fit their definition of pure Aryan white were not deserving of respect, much less of being classified as people.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert Kennedy

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.

Alice Walker

ALL OF THIS began in October 1978. As an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department, the first black detective in the history of the department, I might add, one of my duties was to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might have an impact on the welfare and safety of Colorado Springs. Its surprising what some people will put in the paper: prostitution, obvious money schemes, that sort of thing mostly, but every once in a while theres something that really stands out. As I looked over the classified ads, one in particular caught my eye. It read:

Ku Klux Klan

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