In this documentary, it talks about the Ku Klux Klan spreading all over the state of North Carolina at the heights of segregation. It had become one of the largest charters for the Ku Klux
Klan in the United States at the time. Bob Jones had wanted his message of not wanting to integrate in North Carolina and had many events speaking his points on it.
Jones was well known with the klan since his parents were both parts of it and influenced him to believe those ideas. He became the grand dragon of the klan in 1963. They had done a march on Washington to spread their word to everyone in the country while dawning those white robes and hoods. Some of the people interviewed for the documentary had believed that Bob did this because he really had nothing else doing for him in life, so he decided to take this path.
The African Americans were standing up for themselves wanting their voices to be heard by the people. The Civil Rights movement was really big at the time with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking up for them. The members of the klan started doing some things to the African-Americans which turned into violence. They would torture them to death in many hurtful ways.
Bob Jones wanted the people to know that he was in charge of his way of speaking at rallies. His perspective had caused many people to join him on the klan and be part of the charter in North Carolina.
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