The Nation - News from Jan. 10, 1989

The last four Ku Klux Klan members indicted for disrupting a civil rights march nearly a decade ago in Decatur, Ala., have pleaded guilty to criminal charges, the Justice Department announced. The four pleaded to reduced charges before U.S. District Judge James Hancock in Birmingham, Ala., under agreements reached with prosecutors 4 1/2 years after the indictments were returned. James Turner, acting chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, said the action meant the department had won convictions of all nine klan members prosecuted for violently disrupting the May 26, 1979, march.