16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
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On Sunday, September 15, 1963, four members of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter planted nineteen sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device under the steps of the east side of the 16th Street Baptist church located in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls were killed and between fourteen and twenty-two others were injured[1]
Although four bombers were identified by 1965, no arrests were made until 1977.
Girls who were killed
Injured Survivors
- Sarah Jean Collins
Bombers
- Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.
- Herman Frank Cash
- Robert Edward Chambliss
- Bobby Frank Cherry
Other key figures
- Charles Morgan Jr.
- James Bevel
- John Petts
- Reverend John Cross (pastor of the church)
- Johnny Robinson (killed the same day)
- Virgil Ware (killed the same day)
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