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Speed Read: A Black Cop Infiltrates The KKK

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While he was a Colorado Springs police officer, Ron Stallworth successfully infiltrated the KKK, even though he was black. Read the highlights of his book about his experience.

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Ron Stallworth made headlines in 2006 when a reporter uncovered the retired cop’s amazing story. When Stallworth was the first black police officer in Colorado Springs in the late ’70s, he went undercover and infiltrated the Colorado Ku Klux Klan, becoming not only the leader of his local chapter, but...

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