Alabama Klansmen, William Eaton(L); Collie Leroy Wilkins(C) and Eugene Omas, listens here 5/15 night as U.K.A. attorney Matt H. Murphy speaks at a Klan rally. The attorney led the crowd here - and at Sanford, N.C. 5/17 - that he would work even harder in the upcoming trials of the three Klansmen. They are charged with the murder of a white civil rights worker and the first to stand trial, Collie Wilkins, ended in a mistrial.
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Alabama Klansmen, William Eaton(L); Collie Leroy Wilkins(C) and Eugene Omas, listens here 5/15 night as U.K.A. attorney Matt H. Murphy speaks at a Klan rally. The attorney led the crowd here - and at Sanford, N.C. 5/17 - that he would work even harder in the upcoming trials of the three Klansmen. They are charged with the murder of a white civil rights worker and the first to stand trial, Collie Wilkins, ended in a mistrial.

United Press International · [ca. May 1965]

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Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Ku Klux Klan

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