Vietnam and the Rise of the White Power Movement with Kathleen Belew




Big Brains show

Summary: The revelation for historian Kathleen Belew came while researching a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina that turned deadly when five members were murdered by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis. Belew was struck by the reflection of the killers, some of them Vietnam War veterans. On this episode of Big Brains, Belew shares the previously unknown history of the social movement of the white power movement.