Thomas Blanton, KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church

Thomas Blanton, KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church

Seattle Times

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement, died Friday in prison, officials said. He was 81. Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said Blanton died […]

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