Dear “Dr.” Fields
How to respond to a white supremacist
In 1970, shortly after being elected Attorney General of Alabama, 29-year-old Bill Baxley reopened the case of the 16th Street Church bombing, a racially motivated act of terrorism that resulted in the deaths of four African-American girls1 in 1963 and a fruitless investigation, which marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Baxley’s unwaveri…
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