The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
1963 · Event
Eighteen days after the March on Washington, Klansmen dynamite Birmingham's most prominent Black church on a Sunday morning, killing four girls aged 11 to 14 in the basement dressing room. The murders horrify the nation and harden support for the civil rights bill working through Congress.
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More from The Civil Rights Movement
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
- Montgomery bus boycott (1955)
- Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)
- Birmingham campaign (1963)
- King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
- The murder of Medgar Evers (1963)
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- The Troubles (1968)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)