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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
The
Ku Klux Klan
bombed the
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
in
Birmingham
on September 15, 1963, killing four young African American girls. This was a turning point in the
civil rights movement
leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library Archives