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Outlook: The Black Cop who Infiltrated the KKK

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Ron Stallworth

11/10/2017 GMT

The Black Cop who Infiltrated the KKK

BBC World Service - Outlook, The Black Cop who Infiltrated the KKK

How an African American police officer ended up as a card-carrying member of the KKK

Ron Stallworth was a police officer in Colorado Springs when he went undercover to gather intelligence on the Ku Klux Klan's planned attacks in the 1970s.

Ron Stallworth was one of the first black men to become a police cadet in Colorado Springs. Then he was given the task of going undercover to gather intelligence on the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan. He spoke to high-level members on the phone and a white colleague went to the KKK meetings in his place. The information Ron accumulated was used to help prevent the group's attacks.

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(Picture credit: Ron Stallworth.)

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