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The Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington in August, the September bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church, and the November assassination of John F. Kennedy—an ardent supporter of the civil rights cause who had proposed a Civil Rights Act of 1963 on national television [76] —increased worldwide awareness of and sympathy toward the ...
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2019). McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "A Test of Faith Black Church Burnings and America's Enduring Crucible of 'Race'." Souls 8.1 (2006): 12–26. Soule, Sarah A., and Nella Van Dyke. "Black church arson in the United States, 1989-1996."
The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign .
Read CNN’s 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Fast Facts and learn more about the attack on an Alabama church that killed four African-American girls.
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil ...
Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must ...
The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil Rights District.
Sewell hosted a virtual discussion featuring Lisa McNair, whose sister was one of the four girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.