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...Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti-poverty programs, said Louisiana's Long, would expose them to unbearable pressures from "the Ku Klux Klan on one side" and "the Negro crowd" on the other. Long also charged that Northern Republican Governors such as Michigan's George Romney, New York...
Died. Matthew Hobson Murphy Jr., 51, Alabama attorney and self-styled "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan who last May defended Collie Leroy Wilkins, one of the three Klansmen charged with the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; near Tuscaloosa...
...street lights for the town's Negro neighborhoods. They have also won a few promises, including a pledge to take on two Negro policemen -if they can pass an examination. But for the most part, the demands of civil rights advocates have been thwarted by the Ku Klux Klan. Although Klan rolls are secret, it has been estimated that in Bogalusa and the surrounding countryside there are probably more Klansmen per capita than anywhere else in the South...
...Louisiana, the paper-mill town of Bogalusa has been teetering for a long time on the verge of bloody race vio lence. The Ku Klux Klan is active there, while the Negroes themselves have formed a vigilante group called the Deacons for Defense and Justice...
...causes-even if their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including his father and brother-thereby joining a hardy band of colleagues in conscience across...