![]() ![]() In 1984, James Knowles, a UKA member of the UKA's Klavern 900 in Mobile, was convicted of the 1981 murder of Michael Donald. ![]() 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." By 1965, Shelton's organization had outgrown the other KKK factions to become the largest in the United States, according to the FBI. which peaked with an estimated 30,000 members. Shelton started a new KKK organization, the United Klans of America in an effort to unite the various KKK factions, and served as the UKA leader starting in 1961. He finished in fifth place.įollowing the death of Imperial Wizard Eldon Edwards, the original KKK organization began to fracture during the leadership of Imperial Wizard Roy Davis during the 1960s. In the late 1960s, Shelton ran for Police Commissioner in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He also owned a printing business, with an office on Union Boulevard. ![]() ![]() Shelton was a factory worker and a car-tire salesman. Robert Marvin Shelton (J– March 17, 2003) was a former car-tire salesman and printer who became nationally famous as the Imperial Wizard of United Klans of America (UKA), a Ku Klux Klan group. ![]()
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