Bombingham 1963 | Four Little Girls Killed By Hate
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Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity," the explosion at the church killed four girls and injured between 14 and 22 other people.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The KKK bombed non-white people so much, everybody called it Bombingham.
The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.
Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3BTD3_4n6E
Shows the girls and destruction.
Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson.
Although the FBI had concluded in 1965 that the bombing had been committed by four known KKK members and segregationists: Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank Cherry, no prosecutions were conducted until 1977, when Robert Chambliss was tried by Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley and convicted of the first-degree murder of one of the victims, 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair.
Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3BTD3_4n6E