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Most significant and important moments in civil rights history, like the beating of the freedom riders, like the murder of viola liuzzo. at one point, he actually testifies to the senate and he tries to disguise himself in the most bizarre way of putting a white napkin over his head shaped in such a way that it looked as though he was wearing a klan hood. >> i had been instructed to disrupt, discredit, or disorganize the klan organization to the best of my ability. >> and to get the information, was it necessary to participate in the violent acts yourself? >> some of the information, i think y...

Beulah Mae Donald and her attorney Michael Figures join forces with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit...

City, this state, would prefer preserving that white nationalism and that white supremacist mindset over arresting, charging, and helping to convict four officers who killed a black man. >> i'm so tired of the police saying, "i was afraid." afraid of what? you've got a gun, with 15 shots. you can call in backup from everywhere. so what are you afraid of? >> the klan, at a time when they were being sort of dismantled, they directed many of their members to do, was to go into police departments and other institutions where they would maintain power. >> the fbi issues a report only a few years ag...

Was used to tie the local folks' actions on to the national klan organization. >> you don't have to show that the head of the united klan, robert shelton said, "kill michael donald." we had shown all these other violent things he had done. all you had to do with this corporation, and it was a corporation, was show some of his top officials were behind and promoted the killing. >> some of the conspirators were high-ranking officers in the united klan. in fact, bennie hays was the second or third highest ranking klansman in that organization, in that state, at the time of the murder. >> bennie, ...

So for this trial, i had to show that the united klan had a history of carrying out its white supremacy acts with violence. >> you're going to hear evidence today and tomorrow and the next day that i believe is being heard for the first time in a courtroom. >> we started by the things that the klan had done and that robert shelton, the leader, had been behind. >> now, fortunately we have a piece of evidence i think that's going to convince you that this national organization did more than just espouse a racial philosophy, but they actually, actually encouraged their members to kill and lynch b...