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The explosion blew a hole measuring seven feet (2.1 m) in diameter in the church's rear wall, [27] and a crater five feet (1.5 m) wide and two feet (0.61 m) deep in the ladies' basement lounge, destroying the rear steps to the church and blowing a passing motorist out of his car. [28]
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.
John H. Cross Jr. (January 27, 1925 – November 15, 2007) was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist. He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of church's racially motivated bombing in 1963.
OPINION: The deadly bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 15, 1963 was a wakeup call for America and helped win the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sarah Collins Rudolph, one of the survivors of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, believes she is owed “millions” in atonement for the trauma that continues to haunt her 60 years later.
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 ...
Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as "Dynamite Bob", [1] was a white supremacist terrorist convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.
4 Little Girls is a 1997 American historical documentary film about the murder of four African-American girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rosamond Robertson) in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963.