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T.K. Thorne
Teresa (Katz) Thorne was born April 17, 1954 in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father was a WWII veteran, a former engineer with the Department of the Navy, and an executive with a dry goods/clothing outlet. Her mother was the State Legislative Chairperson for the League of Women Voters and an active reformer of the Alabama State Legislature. Thorne's youth was spent in a climate of civil unrest, as Montgomery was a hotbed for the American Civil Rights Movement. She attended the University of Alabama and obtained a Masters in Social Work before being hired as the first Jewish female officer for the Birmingham Police Department in Alabama, eventually promoted to captain.
Following retirement from the police force, Thorne began another career as Executive Director of City Action Partnership, a non-profit business improvement District in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Thorne also turned to writing (under the name of T.K. Thorne) and produced a number of notable works, including three books. Two were novels, both centered on historical research and women: the first set in 5500 BCE, ''Noah’s Wife'' (2009), and second in the biblical time of Abraham and the ancient story of Sodom and Gomorrah, ''Angels At The Gate'' (2015). In 2013, however, Thorne drew on her background in law enforcement and strong family association with civil rights leaders to debut ''Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers'', a non-fictional account of the four decade long case to convict Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 bombing of an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama (which killed four young girls and changed civil rights history).〔http://www.amazon.ca/Noahs-Wife-T-K-Thorne/dp/0983787808〕〔http://www.amazon.com/Angels-at-Gate-TK-Thorne/dp/390619602X〕〔http://www.amazon.ca/Last-Chance-Justice-Relentless-Investigators/dp/1613748647〕〔16th Street Baptist Church bombing〕 Thorne has received a number of awards for her literary works, including poetry, short stories and screenplays. She and her immediate family remain in Alabama.
== Early Years ==
Thorne was born on April 17, 1954 in Montgomery, Alabama, the first of three children, to father Warren Katz, a WWII veteran and civilian engineer at the Charleston Naval Shipyard who, at the time, was an executive for Steiner Lobman, a large dry goods/clothing manufacturer and distributor in Alabama. Her mother, Jane Katz, a descendant of the prominent Lobman family, became a mother of three (Thorne, sister and brother). She was an active reformer of the Alabama State Legislature, focusing on education, child care, property tax reform, consumer and environmental protection, election/campaign finance/ethics reform, political action committee regulation, and reform of the Constitution of the State of Alabama. She also worked for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, became the State Legislative Chairperson for the Alabama League of Women Voters, published the ''Capitol'' (Legislative) ''Newsletter'', and was eventually inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame (2002).〔http://www.awhf.org/katz.html〕White resistance and lack of government support for equal minority rights in Montgomery increased frustrations within the black community, despite growing support in Alabama for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1954, Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. Events during this time period included Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956, Selma to Montgomery Marches of 1965, including "Bloody Sunday," and other Civil Disobedience. Thorne was nine during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King's I Have a Dream speech, which included:"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists...," and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.〔Speech: http://books.google.ca/books?id=irMxJS36904C&pg=PA95&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false〕 The volatile social climate of her youth may have influenced Thorne's post-secondary choices: a Masters of Social Work (magna cum laude) at the University of Alabama, and in 1977, a position as the first Jewish female officer with the Birmingham Police Department. She retired as a captain and assumed an Executive Director position with City Action Partnership (CAP) in Birmingham (a position in which she continues to serve).〔http://www.capisdowntown.com/home.html〕
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