Ronell Eugene Stallworth is a retired American police officer whose experiences infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s formed the basis for the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman. As the first African-American police officer and detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, Stallworth embarked on a dangerous undercover mission. This narrative recounts his remarkable story of courage and determination in confronting hate.
Relates how African American detective Ron Stallworth went undercover to investigate the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs in 1978, describing how he disrupted Klan activities and exposed white supremacists in the military during the months-long investigation
The true story of Detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who in 1978 went undercover to investigate the KKK