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After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.

Tells the story of an African-American Jerry Ellworth who is a Los Angeles jazz musician with a white girlfriend. In an Alabama diner during the Civil rights movement a young black man attempts to exercise his civil rights by sitting at a local diner. When the Ku Klux Klan learn of this, they firebomb a church, killing Jerry's daughter. When he learns of this, Jerry moves to Alabama to infiltrate the group responsible for his daughter's death. He becomes a member of the inner circle, befriending the local leader and his daughter, and soon exacts his revenge.—Ulf Kjell Gür

Widower Jerry Ellsworth (Richard Gilden), a light-skinned Negro nightclub entertainer living in Los Angeles, learns that his six-year-old daughter has been killed along with three other young children in a Ku Klux Klan church bombing in Alabama. In order to track down the murderer, Jerry leaves behind his white mistress, Andrea (Rima Kutner), and goes to his home town in Alabama. Jerry briefly stays with his mother where he learns details about the bombing which happened a few days after a young black man attempted to exercise his civil rights by sitting at a local diner.

Jerry, wanting to infiltrate the local Klan chapter in town to find the people responsible, passes himself as white. He attends and joins the Klan at the invitation of the local Klan leader, Rook (Harry Lovejoy) during a local rally at the borough hall.

Meanwhile, Farley (Jakie Deslonde), the older brother of another bombing victim, expresses his frustration at a local Negro bar in which he hires two gangsters from Harlem, New York, named Raymond (Max Julien) and Marv, to deal with the Klansmen. The pair make their arrival where Raymond gives a short speech to the black clientele at the bar of their right for striking back against the KKK. On the following night, Raymond and his partner attack a nighttime Klan rally, shooting several people. They are eventually captured by the local police.

Jerry, who has been having an affair with Rook's daughter, Carole Ann, learns that Andrea has arrived from Los Angeles with Lonnie (Jimmy Mack), a Negro friend, to look for him. The new arrivals are quickly seized by the racist sheriff, Farley, who plans to lynch them along with the two New York gangsters. The gangsters are hanged, but Jerry rescues Andrea and Lonnie. He shoots Rook in self-defense, after the Klan leader reveals his own personal responsibility for Jerry's daughter's death.

In the end, Mr. Buckley, the town's white mayor, a changed man, agrees to work for racial harmony, and Jerry decides to remain in Alabama among his people while Andrea returns to Los Angeles alone.