May 1, 2001, Alabama. Former Klansman Thomas Blanton, Jr., is convicted of murdering four children in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham and is sentenced to four life terms in prison. The case was one of the most notorious violent incidents during the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s, but no perpetrators were convicted for many years after the bombing.

May 1, 2001, California. Racist skinhead Justin Merriman receives a death sentence for the rape and murder of a Los Angeles college student in 1992 in Ventura County. According to prosecutors, Merriman raped the woman, then killed her because he was afraid she would notify the police.

May 3, 2001, South Carolina. Mark Thomas Bolick of Rock Hill, South Carolina, a highway patrol officer, is charged with one felony count of state income tax evasion. Bolick, active in the tax protest movement, filed a false 1999 tax return. He is a follower of tax protest guru Irwin Schiff.

May 3, 2001, Michigan, Arizona. Arizona resident Susanne Konicov pleads guilty in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to failing to file income tax returns for three years. Susanne and her husband Barrie, an active figure in the tax protest movement, had been charged in April for conspiring to cheat the government and failing to file tax returns for the years 1994-96. Susanne Konicov said that she didn't "have the stomach" for it anymore; her husband faces trial in June.

May 5, 2001, Indiana. Eight people are arrested following a Ku Klan Klan rally in South Bend after violence breaks out between Klansmen on their way to their cars and counterprotesters. Several Klansmen are arrested, including Richard Loy of Indianapolis, Indiana Grand Dragon of the American Knights of the KKK, on disorderly conduct charges, and John Cochran, eventually charged with two felony counts of resisting law enforcement and three misdemeanor counts of battery, disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement.

May 8, 2001, Louisiana. Winnsboro resident Paul Joseph Miles pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, and passport fraud. Miles, a member of the sovereign citizen group called the Washitaw Nation, had been charged with selling drivers licenses, birth certificates, and passports for the fictitious nation, which he claimed would grant buyers exemption from federal and state authority.

May 11, 2001, Rhode Island. A federal judge in Providence sentences drug dealer Paul Riend to nearly sixteen years in prison for his participation in a drug smuggling ring that moved thousands of pounds of marijuana from California to Rhode Island. While in prison, Riend was exposed to the "redemption" theories of anti-government sovereign citizen activists; consequently, during his trial he represented himself and claimed that the court had no jurisdiction over him and that he was not the person named in the indictment, which was not directed at the "flesh and blood person." According to Riend's stand-by co-counsel, at least four other criminal defendants who had been housed at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center had used the same type of defense in federal court.

May 9, 2001, Pennsylvania. An Allegheny County jury convicts white supremacist Richard Baumhammers on five counts of first degree murder for Baumhammers' shooting spree the previous year that targeted Jews, Asians, and African-Americans. Five victims died in the shooting spree and a sixth was paralyzed from the neck down. Baumhammers faces multiple death sentences.

May 15, 2001, Florida. Three Jacksonville men who attacked a black man after attending a skinhead rally plead guilty to hate crime charges. Robert Harley Parrott, Jacob Albert Laskey, and Edward Richard Fix II were each charged with battery with prejudice following the December attack. They face up to five years in prison.

May 16, 2001, California. Police arrest six skinheads in Santa Clarita following the execution of search warrants at five locations. According to authorities, 22 explosions, three fires, several hundred car burglaries and vandalisms, and numerous racial intimidation incidents can be attributed to the suspects, who face charges including arson, assault with a flammable liquid, detonation of explosive devices, and burglary. Arrested are David Eugene Lampman, 18, and five juveniles.

May 20, 2001, Pennsylvania. A homemade bomb is discovered in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, covered with swastikas and racist and anti-Semitic epithets. The bomb, made from a beer bottle, contained a flammable liquid and an M-80 firecracker. Authorities have no suspects in the case.

May 24, 2001, Missouri. Carol Winrod, daughter of notorious white supremacist Gordon Winrod, receives a sentence of five years probation for her role in the abduction of six nieces and nephews. She had previously entered an "Alford plea," an option in Missouri in which one does not admit guilt but acknowledges that the state has enough evidence to convict. Gordon Winrod earlier received a 30 year sentence for his own role in abducting the children in order to, according to authorities, indoctrinate them in his anti-Semitic beliefs. A third individual, Carol's brother, was acquitted on similar charges. The Winrods are adherents of the racist and anti-Semitic Christian Identity sect.