16th Street Baptist Church bombing - Wikipedia
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.
16th Street Baptist Church bombing | History & Four Girls
Dec 27, 2024 · 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, on the predominantly African American 16th Street Baptist Church by local members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) - U.S. National Park Service
As a bomb exploded under the steps of the church, they sought safety under the pews and shielded each other from falling debris. On September 15, 1963, the congregation of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama greeted each other before the start of …
16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Honoring the 4 girls killed …
Sep 15, 2023 · On the morning of September 15, 1963, Rev. John H. Cross Jr. and members of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, were preparing to start the Youth Day worship service...
Birmingham Church Bombing - HISTORY
Jan 27, 2010 · The 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four young girls but also generated sympathy for the civil rights movement.
Baptist Street Church Bombing — FBI
It was a quiet Sunday morning in Birmingham, Alabama—around 10:24 on September 15, 1963—when a dynamite bomb exploded in the back stairwell of the downtown Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
60 years after 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham - NPR
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.
1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Fast Facts - CNN
Jun 13, 2013 · September 15, 1963 - A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in...
Four Black schoolgirls killed in Birmingham church bombing
Feb 9, 2010 · On September 15, 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia...
On 60th anniversary of church bombing, victim's sister, suspect's ...
Sep 15, 2023 · Alabama on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four girls.