Ron Stallworth

author of “The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop’s Crusade in Mormon Country”

Author of “Black Klansman”

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A decade after the events of “Black Klansman ,” undercover police detective Ron Stallworth relocated to Utah to infiltrate the same Bloods and Crips who waged gang warfare in LA and…

How Ron Stallworth fought LA Crips, Bloods in Utah’s Mormon country

A decade after the events of “Black Klansman ,” undercover police detective Ron Stallworth relocated to Utah to infiltrate the same Bloods and Crips who waged gang warfare in LA and…

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Ron Stallworth was the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In 1978, he infiltrated the local chapter of the KKK.

What it was like to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970?

Ron Stallworth was the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In 1978, he infiltrated the local chapter of the KKK.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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