21. Jerry Ray James & Donald Eugene Sparks
Did you know that there was a southern gang that acted as the muscle for the Ku Klux Klan in the Jim Crow South? Enter... the Dixie Mafia, including members Jerry Ray James and Donald Eugene Sparks.
Sources (some are old-timey and don’t have bylines):
Hobbs Daily News-Sun (Hobbs, New Mexico): “Two Former Hobbsans on FBI’s List”
The Daily Standard (Sikeston, Missouri): “Jerry Ray James, Gang Leader, Joins FBI List”
Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Texas): “Abilenian on FBI’s Top 10 List Nabbed”
Texarkana Gazette: “Dixie Mafia” by Russell McDermott
Crime Reads: “The Dixie Mafia’s Plot to Kill Martin Luther King Jr.” by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock
Truthout: “The Targeting of Martin Luther King Jr.” by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock (excerpt from their book called The Awful Grace of God)
Southern Livestock: “Texas Trails” by Clay Coppedge
Austin American-Statesmen: “After snitching, ex-Austin gangster collected reward money, vanished” by Eric Dexheimer
Crime Capsule: “Cracking Safes with the Austin Mafia” by Crime Capsule staff
United States v. Jerry Ray James et al
Jerry Ray James et al v. State of Texas
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