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a . “of ‘ iI. We turn now to w detailec fliucinss of fact. ~ A. Background. The invisibie rseim of the Original Knights coincides with of the Ku Klux Klan/inéicdes-the~etght-sezrtshes-in the Sixth Con- This cictrict is composed of gressional District of Louisiana. Taes«-cse/the "Florida" parishes, tha area feast of the Mississippi River and north of Lake Pontchartrain claimed by Spain until 1e10. The events giving rise to this action took - - Place in Washington Parish and centered in Bogalusa, the laraest > municipality in che Parish. Bogalusa is on the Pearl River at a C *) ; | 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 gf the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan “and President of the Anti~Cammunist Christian Association is Charles ‘ Christmas of Amite in Tangipahoa Parisn. Saxon Farmer, who seems to have an uncanny capacity for beihe pvesert whenever there is racial ; a} . . troutle in Fogalusa, is the second in comand of both Organizations, ~ on rhe ‘ fe ne penne en elle eae Sranc. Titan of the Klan and Vice~-Presicers: of the Anti-Communist ee Siriscian Atsociation. In Pebruary 1955 he was elected te both { } { ) offiz3s simitaneously. He is also the Exalted Cyclops of one of the Bogalasa Xliverns (local units}. In 1960 this Court entered an order “da the case of United States v. McElveen et als. (CCA.No, 9146) ; against Saxon Farmer and others eijocning them from interfering with the ‘wights of Negro citizens to vote. That order restored to voter ~ { y _registratioz. rolls of Washington Parish the names of 1,377 Negro ‘gitizens Farmer.and others, then active in the Citizens Council, had unlawfully purged from the rolis. | . so . . . ‘ 1 The evidence clearly establishes that the Anti-Communist Christian fea is not a bona rice, independent organization |