From Columbus, Ohio to Novato, California to Kokomo, Indiana, office workers, police officers, and newspaper reporters create positive community solutions to hate violence and the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan activity. Ten years later, it burned to the ground. As members of this small congregation gather at the charred ruins and vow to rebuild we meet Ammie Murray, who leads community efforts in support of the parishioners and New York Fire Fighter Pete Critsimilios who was so moved by St. John Baptist's plight that he sent 100 engraved bibles. Also profiled are labor union members who rebuild churches throughout the South. Across the street from an annual Ku Klux Klan Cross burning on the state house lawn in Ohio, State Social Service Department employees decide to send a different message.
School teachers create innovative lessons to address the issue.
More than 500 people march to protest African American church burnings in the South. Nearly a thousand people sign a pledge against intolerance and many go to Mississippi to rebuild a church that had been burned. The Mayor and police establish a Neighborhood Watch against hate violence. Not In Our Town buttons to initiate discussion with the public. In the 1920s Kokomo Indiana was a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan.