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_Caxrter, Tre Angry Scar, 216 (N. ¥. 1959). we Ss United States of America v. Originel Knights of the Ku Klux Kian, et ais. . Givil Action No. 15793 FOOTNOTES . * Although this order is cast in the form of an opinion, it re- presents the Court's findings of fact and conclusions of law. 2. Counsel fo- the individual defendants take the position that the defendont klan does not exist. The proof shows that the klan con~- tinves to exist and to function as a klan in the benign name of the "Anti-Communist Christian Association". See Section II, A of this opinion. . . - 2. Report of the Joint Select Committes to Inquire into the Condi- tion of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (Wash. 1872), p. 28. (Majority Report.) “3. Testimony of General Forrest before the Joint Select Committee. Note 2, p. 6-14, 449-51. 4. In January 1869 General Forrest issved an order to disband which began “Whereas, the order of the Ku Klux Kian is in some localities being perverted from its original honoreble ang patriotic purposes..." Davis, Authentic History: Ku Klux Xian, 125~28, > UNt-X.. 1928); 5. "There is no dowbt about the fact that great outrages were coraitted by bands of disguiseé men during those years of lawlessness ané oppression. The natural tendency c5 all such organizations is, to ziolence and crime; hence it was thet General Forrest and other - mer of injluence in the state, by the influence of their moral power, inf aced them to disband." Report of the Joint Select Committee, Note 2, p. 463. (Minority Report.) . 6. In United states v. Raines, 1959, 362 U.S. 17, 27, 80 S. Ct. 519, 4 L.EG. 5:4 upholding the constiturvicnality of the Civil Rights Act >of 1957 dr a guit on behalf of private persons against public offi- “. eiels, the Court said: "It is urged that it is beyond the power of Congress to authorize the United States to bring this action in sup- port of private constitutional rights. But there is the highest public interest in the due observance of all the constitutional quarantee:, including those that bear the most directly on private yights, and we think it perfectly competent for Congress to authorize the United States to be guardian of that public interest in a suit for injunctive relief." 7. The parishes of Washington, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, St. Helena, Livingston, Ascension, East Felicianz, West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee. and Iberville. 8. A£f'd. sub. nom. United States v. Thomas 1962, 362 U.S. 58 S.Ct. L.Ed. . —