... be arrested for their serious crimes, was a very rare occurrence, and even when it happened, Klansmen were unlikely to be convicted by local Southern juries. "But where it was strong the Invisible Empire elected scores of local officials, state legislators, a few governors, several national representatives, including Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, William J. Harris of Georgia, and Hugo Black of Alabama, to ... , Henry and James Knowles decided that they would get revenge for the failure of the courts to convict the man who killed the police man. They drove around until they found Michael Do...

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