Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control

Dynamite Nashville is a prequel to the racist violence of the 1960s–the story of how racists came together to learn how to terrorize communities, to blow up homes, schools, and religious buildings, and to escape any meaningful justice. Just as Nashville was where Civil Rights icons like John Lewis, James Lawson, and Diane Nash began, Nashville is also where a network of racial terrorists began. Worse, in Nashville, we see how the differing agendas of local police and the FBI allowed these bombers to escape prosecution until decades later, if at all. On September 10, 1957, Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, blew up. On March 16, 1958, the Jewish Community Center was bombed. On April 19, 1960, the home of Civil Rights attorney and Nashville city councilman, Z. Alexander Looby was dynamited. He and his wife were lucky to escape with their lives. These bombings have never been solved. J.B. Stoner, a suspect in the Nashville bombings, perhaps best known by the pu