Virulent Segregationist J.B. Stoner Dies

He also headed a neo-Nazi organization he called the Stoner Christian Anti-Jewish Party. According to the Journal-Constitution, a 1946 newspaper article quoted Mr. Stoner as saying that "being a Jew [should] be a crime punishable by death."

He moved to Atlanta in the early 1950s, and in 1952, he received a law degree from Atlanta Law School.

He was an attorney for numerous Klan members and other whites charged with race crimes. He also worked as an insurance claims adjuster in Savannah and Dublin, Ga., but he spent most of his time traveling the South as a rabble-rousing crusader against integration, often showing up in the turbulent wake of civil rights demonstrations.

In 1964, he arrived in St. Augustine, Fla., to organize a counter-demonstration shortly after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been there. His incendiary rhetoric set off a riot in which roaming mobs of white people attacked black people.

The FBI considered Mr. Stoner a suspect in King's death and in the bombings of synagogues and black churches during the 1950s and 1960s.

He became the appeals attorney for King's assassin, James Earl Ray, and spent years trying to get the case against Ray overturned. Mr. Stoner was disbarred after his conviction.

He ran for governor of Georgia in 1970, a race won by Jimmy Carter. Two years later, he ran for the U.S. Senate. In that race, he won a ruling from the Federal Communications Commission allowing him to say a racial epithet in TV ads. Two years later, he won nearly 10 percent of the vote in the race for lieutenant governor.

In 1990, he again ran for lieutenant governor after being paroled. He got 3 percent of the vote.

Mr. Stoner described himself as a "soldier of Christ" in the Journal-Constitution interview. "I guess God will put his hand on my head and bless me," he said.

Survivors include two sisters.