In 1978, when Ron Stallworth - the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department - found a classified ad in the local newspaper asking anyone interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to get in touch through From a PO box, he did his job and responded with interest, using his real name, but posing as a white man. He imagined that he would receive some brochures and magazines in the mail, thus learning a little more about a growing terrorist threat in his community. But a few weeks later he rang the phone, and the person on the other end asked him if he would like to join the supremacist cause. Stallworth answered in the affirmative, thus starting one of the most audacious and incredible undercover investigations in history. He recruited his partner Chuck of his to play the "white" Stallworth, while he himself led the subsequent phone conversations. During...read more
