On September 15, 1963, two and a half weeks after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a dynamite bomb set by members of the Ku Klux Klan erupted, just as twenty six children walked into the ...
(The Root) — The doors of Birmingham, Ala.’s 16th Street Baptist Church are open seven days a week, and almost every day, visitors from across the country and around the world come to see the place ...
(The Root) — In 1988, not long after civil rights lawyer, and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder, Morris Dees won a case against the Ku Klux Klan that bankrupted one of the hate group’s major arms ...
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded inside 16th Street Baptist Church 62 years ago Monday, killing four young girls and becoming a turning point in the ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WDHN) — The last surviving ...
Birmingham is commemorating the lives of Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair, who were killed 62 years ago when a Ku Klux Klan bomb exploded in the basement of 16th ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. More on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: http://j.mp/15wAByw A former Freedom Rider describes what it was ...
The church was bombed by white supremacists in September that same year, killing four young girls. Photo by Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; (Far Right) Denise McNair, one of the ...
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