The jury found seven of the defendants guilty: Price, Barnette, Roberts, James Arledge, Billy Wayne Posey, James Snowden, and Samuel Bowers, the Imperial Wizard of Mississippi’s White Knights of ...

The "knights" are the rag tag remnants of a group splintered form the KKK because of the latter's liberalism. Their last hurrah, as they fall apart, is alternately hilarious, poignant, and pointed.