Rosetta “Rose” Hughes never forgot the shift she worked at Birmingham’s University Hospital in the fall of 1963. Klansmen had bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church downtown. A little girl was brought ...

When Mr. Morris tried to escape, one of the Klansmen had forced him back into the burning store at gunpoint. A grand jury was convened in 2011, but Mr. Spencer was never charged.

When Morris tried to escape, one of the Klansmen had forced him back into the burning store at gunpoint. A grand jury was convened in 2011, but Spencer was never charged. He died two years later.

Stanley Nelson investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayings in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Stanley Nelson is seen here near the spot where Klansmen killed farmworker Ben Chester White in an effort to lure Martin Luther King Jr. to Mississippi. (Courtesy of David Rigden) ...

Confronted Klansmen, and visited the families so awfully affected by them,” he said. “Stanley’s passion was writing and local reporting but also investigation and uncovering the history that ...

In darkness, on December 10, 1964, a gang of Ku Klux Klansmen showed up with guns and gasoline and burned Morris alive in his shoe repair store. Morris, hospitalized with severe burns, died four ...

In darkness, on December 10, 1964, a gang of Ku Klux Klansmen showed up with guns and gasoline and burned Morris alive in his shoe repair store. Morris, hospitalized with severe burns, died four ...

Among them is Jerry Mitchell, whose reporting led to several convictions of Klansmen, including Bryan De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Mitchell says he and Nelson ...