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That same week, prosecutors in Alabama finally convicted the Klansman who bombed the black church in Birmingham back in 1963, killing four little girls. We could have done this years ago, they said, if the FBI had just handed over their secret tapes that proved his guilt. That conviction came after months of criticism that the FBI had dismissed warnings of a mole in its ranks right up until they tripped over Russian spy Robert Hanssen, an agent for 25 years. Last month the bureau announced a mediation agreement with African-American agents in a long-running class action charging...
Edwards studied the role of bi-racial electoral coalitions coming together to elect blacks to office. He found that such coalitions were surprisingly common in the cities he studied, especially Birmingham, Ala., and Charlotte...
...tapes, Blanton boasts, "I was on the corner watching the big blast." As he listened in the Birmingham courtroom to the nearly four-decades-old recording, Burns removed his glasses and wiped at his eyes...
...Will the conviction bring an end to the nightmarish memory that has haunted Birmingham all these years? Willoughby Anderson, 22, a Harvard graduate from Birmingham who wrote a thesis on the church bombing, isn't sure. "I don't think justice is possible after 38 years," she says. "But I think this is important for Birmingham just to be talking about this painful and embarrassing moment of our history...
However, the Rev. Abraham Lincoln Woods, president of the Birmingham chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was more positive about the result. "It makes a statement around the nation and the world. If a guilty person can go without being brought to justice it means that the life of a black is not as valuable as a white...