HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

From Producer Ben Crump | FESTIVAL PREMIERE - Pan African Film Festival Civil Rights • U.S. History • Chattanooga Five • KKK Act • Fighting against Hate Crimes and for Social Justice • African American Women's History  Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 33 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director/Producer: John Beder | Producers: Benjamin Crump & Raji Ramanathan On April 19, 1980, four Black women stood waiting for a cab on Chattanooga’s 9th St. when a car passed, driven by a local Ku Klux Klan leader. His passengers, also Klansmen, worked together to fire shotgun blasts from the open window. The gunfire wounded the four friends, and a fifth woman was struck by flying glass as the Klansman continued up the road, firing more shots. In criminal court, an all-white jury acquitted two of the Klansmen and sentenced the third to just nine months. He served only six. Civil unrest followed the verdict, sparking national attention and that of the Ce