Klan Youth Corps

Series: 30 minutes

Duration: 11 min.

Year Published: 1980

Creator: CAROSL

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Examines the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan to indoctrinate the members' children in the tenets of white supremacy. Also presents negative reactions to the Klan's activities as expressed by numerous young people in interviews with the commentator., The Klan Youth Corps inculcates the tenets of the Ku Klux Klan in boys and girls through summer camp programs that offer training in the use of firearms and biased lessons in history and philosophy. Young corps members relate their belief in white supremacy and predict the occurrence of civil war. The film's low opinion of Klan activities surfaces in the remarks of white teenagers who reject the Klan's beliefs and in the articulate statements of a young Black woman's perceptions of the Klan.

Complete Record: , The Klan Youth Corps inculcates the tenets of the Ku Klux Klan in boys and girls through summer camp programs that offer training in the use of firearms and biased lessons in history and philosophy. Young corps members relate their belief in white supremacy and predict the occurrence of civil war. The film's low opinion of Klan activities surfaces in the remarks of white teenagers who reject the Klan's beliefs and in the articulate statements of a young Black woman's perceptions of the Klan. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.