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I'm Amy Goodman.

We're joined now in Nashville, Tennessee by Betsy Phillips, journalist, historian, author of the new book,

Dynamo, Unmasking the FBI, the K K K, and the bombers beyond their control.

She spent nearly a decade trying to uncover the truth about three

civil rights era bombings in Nashville that all went unsolved.

The Hattie Cotton School in 1957 as it was set to integrate.

The Jewish Community Center in 1958, which had held integrated activities, and the home of leading civil rights lawyer

and city council member Z Alexander Luby in 1960.

In the book, Phillips writes, quote, just as Nashville was where civil rights icons like John

Lewis, James Lawson, and Diane Nash began. Nashville's also where a network of racial terrorists began.

Dynamo Nashville's revelations moved Nashville's mayor to ask police to reopen investigations into the attacks

this month. Around the same time neo-Nazis march through Nashville's

downtown for the third time this year and yelled racist slurs

at a group of black children. That's right, grown white men, some carrying American and Confederate flags, were caught on a viral video hurling

racial slurs at a group of five black children who regularly play music downtown.

The men used a version of the N-word almost a dozen times in addition to other slurs.

The children's parents spoke out last week along with the kids who were assaulted.

This is 10-year-old Ditonia Wilson and his mother sharing the advice she gave him.

I feel like it was racist because they were just saying bad words to us and the

Polish didn't do nothing they was just telling us to go home.

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