16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala ~cbs

church that was bombed 1963, killing "four little girls" the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four African-American girls. AP Photo. 09/26/07 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. The violent blast ripped through the wall, killing four African-American girls on the other side and injuring more than 20 inside the church. It was a clear act of racial hatred: the church was a key civil rights meeting place and had been a frequent target of bomb threats.

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