A judge has set bail at $200,000 for each of the two former Ku Klux Klansmen charged with murder in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls. Bobby Frank Cherry and Thomas Blanton of Birmingham are charged in the dynamite blast that horrified the nation and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. The two had been suspects for decades in the attack, but until this month, only one man had been prosecuted in the bombing, former Klansman Robert Chambliss, who was convicted in 1977 and later died in prison.
Bail Set for Fmr KKK Charged with 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing
HeadlineMay 26, 2000