KLANWATCH Bringing the Ku Klux Klan to Justice.

Hardback, 1st edition. On March 20, 1981, Michael Donald, a 19yr. old technical student, was randomly abducted, savagely murdered, and left hanging from the bough of an elm tree, in one of the most publicised race murders of the times. Six years later his mother was awarded the record sum of $7million in damages fron the Ku Klux Klan. The power behind this landmark lawsuit was the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project. Since its founding in 1980, Klanwatch successfully challenged the KKK in courtrooms throughout the USA. Using corporate law in pursuit of criminal justice, the organisation set out to virtually bankrupt the Klan out of business. The author vividly details some of Klanwatch's most important cases. More than a history, this is an in-depth account - harrowing, provocative, and at times grimly comic - of the ingenious strategies Klanwatch has used to fight the KKK, often succeeding where even the police and the FBI failed. Illus. + Index. 277pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in Nr. F. dw.