#THOMAS EDWIN BLANTON JR 2015 WINDOWS#
All the windows were blown out of the building just behind police and emergency workers. on September 15, 1963, killing four black girls. This large crater is the result of a bomb that exploded near a basement room of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Their deaths inside a church on a Sunday morning became a symbol worldwide of the depth of racial hatred in the segregated South. The girls, who were inside the church preparing for worship, died instantly in a hail of bricks and stone that seriously injured Collins’ sister, Sarah Collins Rudolph. The blast killed 11-year-old Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Morris, also known as Cynthia Wesley. “It would be a slap in the face to those young ladies and their families to release him,” Simelton said.īlanton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for being part of a group of Klansmen who planted a dynamite bomb that exploded outside 16th Street Baptist on Sept. NAACP chapters statewide are sending letters in opposition to Blanton’s release, and the Birmingham chapter is sending a busload of people to oppose parole, he said. The president of the Alabama NAACP, Bernard Simelton, said releasing Blanton at a time when protests are occurring nationwide over police killings of black people would send a horrible message.
Inmates are not allowed to attend parole hearings in Alabama, but opponents of Blanton’s release are expected to address the three-person board when it meets in Montgomery. The board has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to consider parole for the 78-year-old Blanton.
#THOMAS EDWIN BLANTON JR 2015 FREE#
Soon, Alabama’s parole board will decide whether Blanton deserves to be free after serving 15 years of a life term for murder. Today, Blanton is old and imprisoned, the last survivor among three one-time KKK members convicted of murder in the bombing. was a young Ku Klux Klansman with a reputation for hating blacks in 1963, when a bomb ripped a hole in the side of 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four black girls during the Civil Rights Movement. The church was the scene of a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four black girls in 1963, and Alabama’s parole board is scheduled next week to consider the early release of Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last man serving time for the slayings. ABOVE PHOTO: Visitors look at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday, July 29, 2016.
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