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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| Summary: | 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 fair trial in Morgan County, it was moved to Cullman, where an all-white jury convicted him of one rape and sentenced him to thirty years in prison. Two years later, a different jury found him mentally incompetent to stand trial, and he was transferred to Partlow State School and Hospital in Tuscaloosa, where he stayed for more than a decade. |
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