Alabama Man Pleads Guilty for His Role in Racially Motivated Cross Burning

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2013. Thomas Windell Smith, 24, of Dothan, Ala., turned himself in and pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, to one count of conspiring to violate housing rights, the Justice Department announced today.  The information charging Smith was unsealed today.  The charge relates to his participation in a cross burning at the entrance to an African-American community in Ozark, Ala., on May 8, 2009, with a former KKK leader…