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Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver

Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver William Robert Billups At approximately 12:45 a.m. on June 30, 1968, two Ku Klux Kla kkk n () assailants, Kathy Ainsworth and Thomas Tarrants III, pulled into a quiet neighborhood in M - erid ian, Mississippi. Wielding a time bomb set to detonate at 2:00 a.m., they aimed to kill Meyer Davidson, a prominent Jewish Mississippian and outspoken critic o kkk f t . he After planting the charge, the bombers would retreat to Miami, Florida, and wait for the assassination fallout to blow over. Ainsworth and Tarrants were unaware, however, that law enforcement awaited them in Meridian. Local police, Federal Bureau of I - nvestiga tion ( fbi) agents, and a naval bomb squad watched them stop at Davidson’s driveway. When Tarrants emerged from the car with a bomb, police shouted and opened fire. A car chase and gunfight ensued, wounding one policeman and bystander, incapacitating Tarrants, and killing twenty-six-year-old Kathy Ainsworth—a pregnant schoolteacher and the only known Klanswoman ever killed by law enforc ement. Ainsworth became a martyr, and she remains one today, representing far-right fears about government threats to white http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of American History Oxford University Press

Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver

Billups, William Robert
The Journal of American History , Volume 109 (4): 24 – Mar 1, 2023
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Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver William Robert Billups At approximately 12:45 a.m. on June 30, 1968, two Ku Klux Kla kkk n () assailants, Kathy Ainsworth and Thomas Tarrants III, pulled into a quiet neighborhood in M - erid ian, Mississippi. Wielding a time bomb set to detonate at 2:00 a.m., they aimed to kill Meyer Davidson, a prominent Jewish Mississippian and outspoken critic o kkk f t . he After planting the charge, the bombers would retreat to Miami, Florida, and wait for the assassination fallout to blow over. Ainsworth and Tarrants were unaware, however, that law enforcement awaited them in Meridian. Local police, Federal Bureau of I - nvestiga tion ( fbi) agents, and a naval bomb squad watched them stop at Davidson’s driveway. When Tarrants emerged from the car with a bomb, police shouted and opened fire. A car chase and gunfight ensued, wounding one policeman and bystander, incapacitating Tarrants, and killing twenty-six-year-old Kathy Ainsworth—a pregnant schoolteacher and the only known Klanswoman ever killed by law enforc ement. Ainsworth became a martyr, and she remains one today, representing far-right fears about government threats to white

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