Wayne Greenhaw

The author of 22 books who chronicled changes in the American South from the civil rights movement to the rise of a competitive Republican Party,[1] he is known for his works on the Ku Klux Klan[2] and the exposition of the My Lai Massacre of 1968.

He attended Tuscaloosa High School, and at age fourteen contracted polio and spent the better part of a year in a body cast.

[11] His book Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama was hailed as "an important addition to the civil rights record"; the book is "a scholarly account based on interviews, court records, and newspaper articles" that has "readability and poignancy".

Greenhaw navigates through the explosive events that spurred a sea change in race relations, encompassing both the villains-e.g., Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss, who supplied the explosives responsible for many of the bombings, including the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963-and the numerous heroes, such as the sole early black lawyers in Selma, J.L.

[13]He co-wrote with Donnie Williams The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow.