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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group.
The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that happened on September 15, 1963, remains one of the city’s most devastating events. The 16th Street Baptist Church was a prominent African American church in Birmingham that was known for its role in the civil rights movement.
The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.
When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it takes the lives of four young girls; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, which killed four young girls gathered for worship, marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and galvanized support for he Civil Rights Act of 1964.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBMA) — 61 years ago today, 1,000 of students marched on May 2nd in a nonviolent protest against segregation. Later named the Children's Crusade, 50 students walked out of the...
Students also visited the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, the site of a 1963 Klan bombing that killed four children, later hearing from Sarah Collins Rudolph, the lone survivor of the bombing whose sister Addie Mae Collins was killed.
