The organization was linked to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham , Alabama , that killed four young girls ; the murder of Viola Liuzzo near Selma in 1965 , and the lynching of teenager Michael Donald in Mobile in 1981 . Because of murder charges and convictions , some of the UKA 's most well-known members included Thomas E. Blanton , Jr. , Bobby Frank Cherry , Herman Cash , Robert Chambliss , Bennie Hays , Henry Hays , and James Knowles . Robert Shelton died at the age of 73 in 2003 in Tuscaloosa from a heart attack
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
United Klans of America