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Opponents of the Ku Klux Klan have long tried to stop its racist activities. Last week an all-white jury in Mobile may have finally done it. In a civil suit against the United Klans of America arising from the 1981 murder of a black teenager by six U.K.A. members, the jury awarded damages of $7 million to the mother of Michael Donald, who was beaten, strangled and hung from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various...
...KLUX Klan took a knockout punch from an Alabama jury last week. An all-white Alabama jury...
...story of the Klan's ultimate demise begins in 1981, when a group of Klansmen in Mobile did something generatons of Klansmen had done before them: they lynched a local Black teenager. Two were convicted in the slaying...
...based in Tuscaloosa, is the largest of the several independent groups which, together, comprise "the Klan". Overall Klan membership reached its all-time high of three million to five million in the nativist 1920's and surged again up to 55,000 in response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. It reached a recent peak of 13,000 in 1981, the same year Klansmen killed Michael Donald, but has been dropping ever since. The Klan today has 6500 members...
...particularly significant that it was an all-white jury that reached this devastating judgment against the Klan, testimony perhaps of changing racial attitudes in this country, especially in the South...