Background
Robert Marvin Shelton was born on June 12, 1929.
Robert Marvin Shelton was born on June 12, 1929.
He finished in fifth place.
Shelton was a factory worker and a car-tire salesman. He also owned a printing business, with an office on Union Boulevard. In the late 1960s, Shelton ran for Police Commissioner in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Shelton served as the UKA leader starting in 1961, which peaked with an estimated 30,000.
In 1966 Shelton received a year in prison and $1,000 fine for contempt of the United States Congress, "for refusing to turn over membership lists to the House Committee on Un-American Activities."
At trial Knowles said he and Henry Hays killed Donald "in order to show Klan strength in Alabama." In 1987, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) brought a civil case, on behalf of the victim"s family, against the United Klans of America for being responsible in the lynching of Donald, a 19-year-old black manitoba Unable to come up with the $7 million awarded by a jury, the UKA was forced to turn over its national headquarters to Donald"s mother, who then sold lieutenant
During the civil trial Knowles said he was "carrying out the orders" of Bennie Jack Hays, Henry Hays" father and a long-time Shelton lieutenant. In 1994, Shelton said, "The Klan is my belief, my religion.
But it won"t work anymore.
The Klan is gone. Forever."
Shelton died of a heart attack on March 17, 2003 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Ku Klux Klan]
In 1984 James Knowles, a UKA member of the UKA"s Klavern 900 in Mobile, was convicted of the 1981 murder of Michael Donald.
