Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

• Birmingham, Alabama

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The Bombing

• The Details
• Sunday, September 15, 1963
• Ku Klux Klan involvement
• 4 men suspected
• Dynamite used

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Bombingham

• Four girls killed, 17 others injured
• Histroy of bombing in Birmingham
• Over 50 attacks in 18 yrs.
• Fighting integration

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Civil Rights Movement

• Before the bombing
• Martin Luther Kings I have a dream
• Nonviolent resistance
• Numerous youths participating in demonstrations
• Desegregation of Birmingham schools
• 16th St B.C role in movement

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Civil Rights Movement

• After the bombing
• Galvanizing moment of the movement
• Anne Moodys Response
• Increasing riots and violence

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The Aftermath

• Response of the community
• Public Funeral
• Eulogy by MLK Jr.
• Response of Governor Wallace

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Judicial Consequences

• Robert Chambliss
• Oct. 8th 1963- Not Guilty
• November 1977-Guilty
• Bobby Cherry
• May 2002-Guilty
• Herman Cash

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Poems

• And the Children of Birmingham
• By Thomas Merton
• Violence Hurts
• Sara Holbrook
• I, too
• Langston Hughes