Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, being interviewed by reporters outside the courthouse in Cullman, Alabama, during the trial of Tommy Lee Hines.
Wilkinson had come to Cullman from his home in Louisiana to lead a Klan demonstration during the trial. Tommy Lee Hines, a 26-year old man who was said to have the mind of a 6-year-old child, had been charged with raping three white women in Decatur. Because his lawyer argued that he could not get a...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/124832 |