Bama Bombers
The 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama that took the lives of four young African-American girls was an unnecessary hate crime committed by former KKK conspirators. On September 15, 1963 four conspirators, Ku Klux Klan members, planted and exploded a dynamite bomb, consisting or 15-19 possibly even more than 20 sticks, out side a Birmingham church. The explosion, that took place only days after a federal judge ordered Birmingham; to desegregate its schools this prompted an outbreak of hatred that culminated in the bombing of the church, demolished a wall killing four little black girls- Denise McNair 11, Cynthia Wesley 14, Carole Robertson 14, and Addie Mae Collins. (New York Amsterdam News, magazine). Church members were gathered at the church were gathered up stairs at the church on September 15, 1963, and the little girls were in a basement dressing room preparing for the adult mass service. (The ‘Bama Bombings, Book). Along with the four little girls there were also more than 22 adults that suffered injuries also. (udel.edu/~jeffmay/civil.html, internet) Before the bombing accrued in 1963 the church served as a headquarters for many mass meetings and rallies
crime, though they held strong evidence pointing to the bombers. Because of local interference, the FBI did not have as much evidence as they should have. With foot In May 2001, an Alabama grand jury found Thomas Blanton guilty of four counts of first degree murder, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. After many repeated delays due to Cherry being deemed to be mentally incompetent and unable to stand trial, fashion” FBI Spokesman Craig Dahle said. “The reason it’s now becoming public is that we started to interviewing witnesses… and we know word would get out sooner or later.” Reopening its investigation, ‘It’s a crime that has gone unsolved except one local conviction and it remains a sore part or American history that we would like to heal,”
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