Dynamite Nashville, Betsy T. Phillips

New evidence in 'Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing nationwide acts of violence  in the late 1950’s and early 1960s. The book also implicates both the FBI and local law enforcement agencies.  No understanding of the violent nationwide white response to desegregation efforts then, and white supremacist actions now, can be complete without reading 'Dynamite Nashville.' Just as Nashville was where Civil Rights icons like John Lewis, James Lawson, and Diane Nash began, Nashville is where one of the country's most prominent organizations of racist terrorists formed. Members of The Confederate Underground would participate in least twenty bombings between 1957 and 1963, including the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.—a bombing for which J.B. Stoner allegedly provided the dynamite. In ‘Dynamite Nashville,’ Phillips revisits three unsolved