A parole board has decided against freeing a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted over a church bombing in Alabama that killed four black girls more than 50 years ago.

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Driving rain and drums drowned out the words of two dozen Ku Klux Klansmen at a rally held days after a wooden cross was burned on the lawn of the first black mayor of a Tennessee town.