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...threatened nuclear disaster), Decatur, Ala. (armed Ku Kluxers on the rampage), and Meridian, Miss, (serious flooding...
...role of her father deftly shades his performance so that it explains not only his character but also where Norma Rae got her fire-cracking sparkle. The ensemble acting of the management staff in the factory deserves kudos as well. Rather than performing as a contingent from the Ku Klux Klan in mufti, the six men act with an understated assurance which suggests, but does not exaggerate, both their down-home humanity and their anti-semitic hostility to Reuben--who does go out of his way to alienate them by swooping in on the factory like an ACLU avenging angel...
Even for a 14-hour miniseries, Roots 11 covers a huge amount of ground. Ha ley's family members witness the rise of the Jim Crow South and the Ku Klux Klan, both World Wars, the race riots of the Wilson era and the hard times of the Depression. They endure the outright segregation of the Old South and the de facto segregation of the modern North. They contend with racist military officers, hypocritical white liberals, and Uncle Tom blacks. They wrestle with the political and sociological imperatives of such thinkers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Malcolm...
...have a photograph of him hanging above my desk. He's standing on a plot of farmland in rural and red-neck Yadkin County, grinning broadly, wearing green silk robes and cradling a machine gun. Joe Grady was the Grand Dragon of North Carolina's Federated Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
Things changed when David Duke came to town a few weeks later. Duke is from a suburb of New Orleans, and is sophisticated, articulate, young and attractive. He is also a very charismatic organizer for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a quasi-rival of Grady's group...