- Introduction
- Birmingham Campaign
- A.G. Gaston
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
16th Street Baptist Church- Practice
- Task
16th Street Baptist Church
| Four victims of 16th Street Baptist church bombing |
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| Four victims of 16th Street Baptist church bombing. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Windburn48. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 |
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| The victims of the 16th Street bombing. |
Several months after the Birmingham crusade, four little girls were killed in a bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Klansmen in the area, who were upset by the recent changes brought to the city, selected the church site for a bombing because of its centerpiece in the Birmingham movement. The tragic bombing in Birmingham thrust the city once again on the world stage and helped further solidify support for the Civil Rights Act.
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True or False
- Six children were killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
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- The city of Birmingham had experienced forty bombings prior to the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist.
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- Following the bombing, the entire white community in Birmingham grieved for the loss of the children and halted further attacks.
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Click "Show Answer" above to see the correct answers for the questions.
Answer - False; four girls were killed
Answer - True; this fact helped the city achieve the nickname “Bombingham”
Answer - False; though many did, attacks against blacks continued
Did you know that in the years following the 16th Street bombing that the FBI refused to prosecute the four suspects? It wasn’t until 1977 that the first suspect was tried and found guilty. The others were not prosecuted until 1997 and 2002; they were both eventually found guilty as well. (The fourth suspect died before he could be tried.)
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