FBI KKK
Length: 82:00
Director: Micheal Frierson
www.fbi-kkk.com
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"FBI KKK is a personal documentary about my father, Dargan Frierson, an FBI agent, and the intersection of his life with George Dorsett's. Both men had ancestors in the KKK, but only one became a reconstructed Southerner. Dorsett was the highest ranking member of the United Klans of America who secretly provided information to the FBI under a program called COINTELPRO WHITE HATE. This was a counter intelligence program: the goal was create a coordinated program to neutralize the Klan.
Dorsett's first klan job was as the head preacher and fundraiser, but soon he was also on the FBI payroll. With racial violence simmering in North Carolina, home to the largest klan membership in the United States, my dad worked closely with Dorsett to monitor klan activities. He engineered the formation of the Confederate Knights of the KKK as a splinter group, and set Dorsett up as the head, a classic divide and conquer tactic.
Michael Frierson's powerful documentary, FBI KKK , works at the intersection of social history and autobiography.
'The greatest strength of Frierson's film is the vivid and often painful portrayal of the human ties of friendship and kinship across the divides of race, class, and ideology. Its greatest gift is that it brings home to the viewer the felt need for voicing in a collective setting the unresolved feelings, often long repressed, that attach to being white, having privilege, and bearing witness to crimes of racial injustice committed in one's name.' --Professor George Dimock
Q & A with Director Michael Frierson!
Show Times:
Friday, November 13, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM @ Thalian Hall, Black Box
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