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Another stinging setback for the Grand Knights came from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which severely enjoined Klan members from interfering with the civil rights of Negroes in Louisiana's Washington Parish, whose biggest town is strife-torn Bogalusa (pop. 23,000). In a decision that may deter Klan mischief more effectively than any number of congressional investigations, Judge John Minor Wisdom warned Klan toughs all over the South that they face effective federal intervention at the smallest interference with Negroes' rights, can no longer use economic coercion and threats of violence...
Sims is the spokesman for the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed Negro police organization that is spreading across the rural South and into Northern cities. He reigns over the most famous of the Deacon chapters, in Bogalusa, La., and his exploits there prompted Jet magazine to label him "The man most feared by whites in Louisiana...
...Bogalusa, the other Deacons take their cue from Sims. They are just as mysterious, just as hostile, and even less accessible. While in Bogalusa this summer, I asked Sims the size of his organization, and he growled, "I don't want nobody to know how big or how small we are. It's the idea alone that cuts down a lot of the crap." I put the same question to a few of his lieutenants and got no answer...
...column "My Dream." It is an expansive dream indeed. The column, his syndicate says, "will deal with the need for creative nonviolence around the globe, for a spiritual renaissance, for peace and for understanding, as well as for freedom from totalitarianism in all its forms, and dignity in Bogalusa and Harlem...
...virtually alone on the job with only two national ad accounts to help pay costs. To honor his persistent fight, the Radio and Television News Directors last week named him recipient of their annual Paul White Award (named after CBS's first news chief). Aware that his Bogalusa experience has left Blumberg in need of far more than a silver cup, the TV men spontaneously passed the award around, filled it out of their pockets to the tune...