CONTENTS

Preface

1

TWISTED THEOLOGY

The Synagogue Bombings of 1957–1958

2

GENESIS

The Christian Identity Movement

3

THE DAYS OF NOAH

The 1962 Ole Miss Integration Riots and the 1963 Murder of Medgar Evers

4

THE DESECRATED SANCTUARY

The 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

5

THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS

The 1964 (Neshoba County) Mississippi Burning Murders

6

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Black Militant Reaction and the Urban Riots of 1964–1965

7

THE ALPHA

The Failed Attempts to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr., 1958–1967

8

THE OMEGA

The Final Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967–1968

9

TRIBULATION

Outrage and the Investigation into Who Really Killed King

10

THE END OF AN AGE

The Fragmentation of the Radical Right in the 1970s

11

THE TENTH PLAGUE

The Atlanta Child Murders, 1979–1981

12

JEREMIAH’S WARRIORS

The Order, the CSA, and the 1984 Murder of Shock Jock Alan Berg

13

TIM McVEIGH’S BIBLE

The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

14

ZEALOUS FOR HONOR

Lone-Wolf Terrorism through the New Millenium

15

REVELATIONS

Apocalyptic Religious Terrorism Post-9/11

Appendix: List of Key People and Groups

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index