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Sep 15, 2020 · The lives of all four girls intertwined and tragically ended at 10:21 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, when a bomb planted by Klansmen outside the ladies’ lounge at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham exploded, instantly killing them and injuring 20 others.
Sep 15, 2022 · Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
Sep 15, 2023 · FILE--A copy of a 1963 file photo of the Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole...
- Shelia Poole
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.
Sep 12, 2013 · Photographs of the bombing’s aftermath–including the iconic image of blinded Sarah Jean Collins in her hospital bed–shocked the nation and helped give an emotional push for the passage of the...
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the Birmingham police killed a sixteen-year-old African American boy, shot two men (one of them in the head), and beat, injured, and fired upon others.
Sep 14, 2023 · On Sept. 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. This week, the city is remembering one of the darkest chapters in civil rights history.
