16th Street Baptist Church bombing

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism[1][2] which happened at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Three 14-year-old girls and an 11-year-old girl were killed.

Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.[3]

Although the FBI had concluded in 1965 that the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing had been committed by four known Klansmen and segregationists: Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank Cherry,[4] no prosecutions were conducted until 1977.

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  1. ↑ "16th Street Baptist Church bombing". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Meacham, John (September 23, 2013). "Fifty Years After Bombing, Birmingham is Resurrected". Time. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Today in 1963: The Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church". ajccenter.wfu.edu. 2013-09-15. Archived from the original on 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  4. ↑ White, Jerry (May 20, 2000). "Former Klansmen indicted for murder in 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama church". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved May 27, 2019.