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1958 - KKK pickets Visulite Theater
Event Date:
September 1, 1957
Event Type:
Modern Era Begins 1946-1959
1957 - KKK pickets Charlotte's Visualite Theater for showing “Island in the Sun.”
- The movie is a romantic melodrama about problems on a West Indian island.
- Its integrated cast includes Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Joan Collins.
- The Visualite Theater is on Elizabeth Ave. in central Charlotte.
- Charlotte's police chief talks to a Klan member.
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