16th Street Baptist Church bombing

the 1950’s and 60’s with events such as Plessy v. Ferguson, integration of Central High School, “I Have a Dream” speech, etc. The most significant events in moving civil rights forward for African Americans was Montgomery Bus Boycott, bombing of Birmingham Church, and Selma marches. Although these events helped move civil rights forward, the negative attitude towards African Americans in the Deep South made it harder and longer to fight for equality. The attitudes towards African Americans…

film, Four Little Girls, is a historical documentary about the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing that took place on September 15, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. According to Rodger Elbert, who reviewed this film shortly after it came out in 1997, Spike Lee, who directed the film was able to bring the back to life by including photographs, videos and interviews with the family members of the four little girls who were killed in that bombing. In addition to capturing the lives of the lives of the…

when the bomb exploded under the steps of the church down in the basement 4 little girls: Denise McNair (14) Addie Mae Collins (14) Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (11) https://www.nps.gov/articles/16thstreetbaptist.htm were all killed. The reason behind the bombing was the desegregation of lunch counters, restrooms, and fitting rooms. The city even began to hire African Americans to work in stores and became salesmen. As soon as the bombing happened the Birmingham branch of the FBI…

Birmingham’s Mayor Albert Boutwell wept and said, “It is just sickening that a few individuals could commit such a horrible atrocity.” Two more blacks were shot to death approximately seven hours following the Sunday morning bombing. This included 16-year-old Johnny Robinson and 13-year-old Virgil Ware, who were shot at about the same time. Robinson was shot by police, reportedly after they caught him throwing rocks at cars and he ignored orders to halt as he fled down an alley. Ware was "shot…

in a pool of sweat feeling the heat radiating off of my scarred skin from the previous years of nightmares. Every now and then I can even smell the burning of my flesh as i did for weeks upon weeks after the incident. Nevertheless the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing was a tragedy and it is truly a shame that me and all of Birmingham, Alabama had to wait 14 years for justice. I remember first awakening that day with a huge sparkling grin and the smell of coffee lingering down the halls. The…

service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls were killed and many others were injured. It was later discovered that 15 sticks of dynamite were placed in the church basement under what would later turn out to be the girls' bathroom. At 10:19 am, it exploded killing 14-year old Cynthia Wesley, 14-year old Carole Robertson, 14-year old Addie Mae Collins, and 11-year old Denise McNair. Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry writes in the Huffington Post, "This bombing…

In the beginning of the novel, the narrator introduces important characters without the reader knowing by telling the story of the man attempting to end his life. The narrator advances some years in the novel and starts to reintroduce the characters. Macon Dead Jr., who is the main protagonist of the story, starts off not knowing who he is. Macon Jr. is known as Milkman throughout the novel because Freddie catches his mother breastfeeding him at an age that is not normal. His parents are Macon…

Jr. receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and shifts to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, by the Ku Klux Klan, resulting in the deaths of four Black girls. Following this, the movie shows Alice Cooper in Selma, Alabama trying to register to vote, but the white registrar asks her impossible questions to deny her. One of these questions is to name all sixty-seven county judges in Alabama. The bombing of the church prompted MLK to meet with Lyndon B. Johnson to…

(Extremism in America). Tons of bombings, whippings, and shooting occurred in the South, which were carried out by a few Klansmen in secret (Britannica School). President Lyndon B. Johnson publicly denounced the Ku Klux Klan nationwide on the television. Four Klansmen were arrested for slaying a civil rights worker, a white woman, in Alabama. The Klan violence became more isolated as the membership decreased down to just a few thousand (Britannica…

and challenges of people of color during that critical period in time. This story is categorized as historical fiction because even though its characters are made up, the story is based on real life historic events which includes the 16th Street Baptist Church bombings that was carried out by antiracial group called the KKK which took the dear lives of innocent souls including children. The struggles of these people of color in this novel will serve both as a mirror and a window for its…