NAACP leader Hezekiah Jackson speaks about the possible parole of Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. during a news conference near 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on July 29, 2016. Alabama’s parole board is scheduled next week to consider an early release for Blanton, part of a group of Klansmen who set a bomb that killed four black girls inside the church in 1963. The NAACP and other groups are opposing Blanton’s release from a life sentence for murder. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)