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1’ “> Il. We turn now to @ detailec fii:cines of fact, A. Background. ‘The invisible reeim of the Original Knights eeine! dee with Be SS Wie eal of the Ku Klux Klan/inéindes-the-etght-serishes-in the Sixth Con- This district is composed of gressional District of Louisiana. Snesc-cse/the "Florida“ parishes, tha area feast of the Migsissippi River and north of Lake Pontchartrain claimea by Spain until isi0. The events giving rise "to this action took | ; place in Washington Parish and centered in Bogalusa, the jargest Municipality in che Parish. Bogaluse is on the Pearl River at a point where the river forms the boundary between Louisiana and: Mississippi. It has a population of about 14,000 white persons and 7,500 Negroes. The Grand Dragon 9f the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Christmas of Amite in Tangipahoa Périsn. Saxon Farmer, who seems to have an uncanny capacity for being present whenever there is racial Tee, -_! . : trouble in Fogalusa, is the second in cornand of both Organizations, eS ~~ Ae ee ee ae ome ene = Srané Titan of the Klan and Vice-Presidern: of the Anti-Communist ae ‘Carisctian Arsociation. In February 1355 ne was elected to both offizc3as similtaneously. He is also the Exalted Cyclops of one of the Bogalasa Kliverns {local units). In 1960 this Court entered an order in tre case of United States v. McZlveen et als. (CTA.No. 9146) against Saxcn Farmer and others eijoining them from interfering with the “sights of Ncgro citizens to vote. That order restored to voter ~ registration. rolls of Washington Parish the names of 1,377 Negro ‘citizens Farmer and others, then active in the Citizens Council, had unlawfully purged from the rolls. yo uate 4 The evidence clearly establishes that the Anti-Communist Christian heaoetation is not a bona fice, independent organization \ \ +