Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South

by Courtney Hargrave (Author)

Best History

Shortly after his museum opened, Michael Burden abruptly left the Klan at the urging of a woman he fell in love with. Broke and homeless, he was taken in by Reverend David Kennedy, an African American preacher and leader in the Laurens community, who plunged his church headlong into a quest to save their former enemy.

In this spellbinding Southern epic, journalist Courtney Hargrave further uncovers the complex events behind the story told in Andrew Heckler’s film, Burden, which won the 2018 Sundance Audience Award. Hargrave explores the choices that led to Kennedy and Burden’s friendship, the social factors that drive young men to join hate groups, the intersection of poverty and racism in the divided South and the difference one person can make in confronting America’s oldest sin.

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Publisher Brains & Noble

Publication date June 13, 2026

Condition new

Author Courtney Hargrave

Interior Black_white

Item model number BN-53964

Category History