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The Black Legion was an offshoot organization of the . The Associate Press described the organization on May 31, 1936, "as a group of loosely federated night-riding bands operating in several States without central discipline or common purpose beyond the enforcement by lash and pistol of individual leaders' notions of "Americanism." The murder of Charles Poole, kidnapped and murdered in southwest Detroit caused authorities to finally arrest and successfully try and convict a group of twelve men, therby ending the rein of the Black Legion. ''The Black Legion'' was also the name of a 1937 Humphrey Bogart film, featuring a fictionalized version of the group. Members wore black uniforms with Skull And Crossbones insignia and were allegedly responsible for numerous murders of alleged communists and socialists, notably Earl Little, Malcolm X 's father. EXTERNAL LINKS |