The Sept. 11 attacks represented terrorism on a huge scale, directed at all kinds of Americans. But certain segments of America have over the years survived terrorism on a smaller scale, says Douglas Jones, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, best known for successfully prosecuting the man who bombed a black church nearly 30 years ago, killing four little girls.

        Mr. Jones of Birmingham is keynote speaker at the Heart-to-Heart Racial Justice Breakfast Feb. 14, put on by the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati, the YWCA and Washington Park Elementary.

        Mr. Jones successfully tried Thomas Blanton in May 2001 for the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Blanton was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

        It was called the deadliest crime of the civil rights era. But there have been other crimes against minorities, he said.

        “What we saw on Sept. 11 has been happening all the time against a certain group of people,” Mr. Jones said in a phone interview Friday. “It is just that we did not pay any attention to it.”

        Mr. Jones, 47, served in the U.S. Attorney's office four years. Now he is in private practice and is running for U.S. Senate.

        He said he will focus on the Blanton trial in his speech, using pictures and slides to show the evidence they gathered.

        “I have found out that children are very moved when they see what happened and see that children were murdered. It has an adverse impact on them,” Mr. Jones said.

        The racial-justice breakfast will be 7:30-9:45 a.m. at Music Hall Corbett Tower, 1243 Elm St., downtown. It will include a panel discussion, called “To Children With Love.”

        Tickets: $40. Registration: 381-8213.

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