The Nation - News from Feb. 21, 1985
Two Ku Klux Klan members and a klan sympathizer pleaded guilty in Montgomery, Ala., to federal and state charges stemming from a fire set at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Joe M. Garner and Roy T. Downs Jr., identified as klansmen, and Charles Bailey pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to threaten, oppress and intimidate members of black organizations represented by the law center.
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