Apartheid. USA 1988

February 13, 1987:

An all-white jury in Mobile, Alabama returned a 7 million dollars verdict against the United Klans of America, a decision hailed by civil rights leaders around the South. The verdict marked the first time that a Klan group had been held financially liable for acts committed by members, in this case the hanging from a tree by Klan members in 1981 of Michael Donald (19). Klan membership reached a peak in the 1920's with 3 to 5 million. The anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith estimated in 1986 that white supremacists could be summed up as follows: 1) the United Klans of America, headquarters, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, membership 2 500: 2) The Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquarters Shelton, Connecticut, membership 2 000: 3) Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquarters, Birmingham, Alabama, membership, 500: 4) Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquarters, Tuscumbia, Alabama, membership 500 to 1 000: 5) Confederate Knights of the Southern National Front, headquarters, Fayetteville, North Carolina, membership 300: 6) The Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquarters, Mount Holly, North Carolina, membership 150.^47.

47. The New York Times, from a report by Robin Toner