UNITED STATES v. CRENSHAW COUNTY UNIT OF UNITED KLANS OF A

Civ. A. No. 2723-N.

290 F.Supp. 181 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CRENSHAW COUNTY UNIT OF the UNITED KLANS OF AMERICA, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., C. D. "Durwood" McLeod, Individually and as Exalted Cyclops; John William Moody, Individually and as Kligrapp and Klabee; F. Brown Franklin; H. E. Browder; Barney Furr; M. O. Bodiford; John M. Wilson; and Grady Mount, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

August 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Pollak, Atty. Gen., Frank M. Dunbaugh and Frank D. Allen, Jr., Attys., Civil Rights Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Ben Hardeman, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.

Ira DeMent, Montgomery, Ala., for all defendants except H. E. Browder.

H. E. Browder, pro se.


ORDER

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

This is another action by the Nation against a Klan.1 In this case, the United States seeks an injunction to prevent further interference with the exercise of rights by Negro citizens of Crenshaw County to choose to attend and attend the predominantly white schools, adjudicated by orders of this Court. Defendants are certain named individuals and a corporation, the Crenshaw County Unit of the United...

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