Associated Press WriterBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- In the final trial stemming from one of the most notorious events of the civil rights era, a mostly white jury convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the turbulent civil rights era — the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three young civil rights workers — a reputed Ku ...

Associated Press WriterBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- A judge ruled Thursday that former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry is mentally competent to stand trial on murder ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was wheeled before a judge yesterday, an 80-year-old relic of Mississippi’s hate-filled past, and sentenced to 60 years in prison for the ...

The Klansman who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four black girls in 1963, goes before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles next month for his first parole ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The last surviving Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls 50 years ago spends nearly all his time in a one-person prison cell, apparently too wary ...

A former Ku Klux Klansman will go on trial tomorrow for the murder of two young black men who were abducted, beaten, and dumped into the Mississippi river in 1964. James Ford Seale, 71, a former crop ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. R. Derek Black was the heir apparent to ...

*This picture has been around for a good minute, but that’s no reason to dismiss it. After all, some hateful lack of real manhood went through an awful lot of trouble to create it; so my guess is ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2023 issue. This story seems hard to believe: One man was an Alabama klansman whose speechwriting made George Wallace a national figure. The ...