J.B. Stoner

 

 

Age: 81

 

Summary: founder and longtime chairman of the National States' Rights Party segregationist group whose conviction of the 1958 Bethel Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama made him a benchmark for racial extremism in the United States despite his unsuccessful attempts to run as a Democrat for several political offices in order to promote his white supremacist agenda.

 

 

Cause of Death: Complications from pneumonia

 

Born: April 13, 1924

 

Died: April 23, 2005

 

Location: La Fayette, Georgia