UNITED STATES v. ORIGINAL KNIGHTS OF KU KLUX KLAN

Civ. A. No. 15793.

250 F.Supp. 330 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, by Nicholas deB. KATZENBACH, Attorney General of the United States, Plaintiff, v. ORIGINAL KNIGHTS OF the KU KLUX KLAN, an unincorporated Association, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

December 1, 1965.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This is an action by the Nation against a klan.*

The United States of America asks for an injunction to protect Negro citizens in Washington Parish, Louisiana, seeking to assert their civil rights. The defendants are the "Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan", an unincorporated association, the "Anti-Communist Christian Association," a Louisiana corporation, and certain individual klansmen, most of whom come...

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