15 sett 1963 anni - 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

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Less than a month after Martin Luther King Jr. made his historic "I Have a Dream" speech, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed, killing four black girls: Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; Cynthia Wesley, 14, and Addie Mae Collins, 14.

The 16th Street church was the first and largest black church in Birmingham. During the 1960s, 16th Street was the hub of the city's civil-rights activities. There, civil-rights activists strategized, held mass meetings, sponsored rallies, and planned demonstrations in the fight against segregation.

At the height of the civil-rights movement, Birmingham was known as Bombingham. By the fall of 1963, there had been more than 80 unsolved bombings in the city, including at the home of A.D King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s brother.

But September 15, 1963, would go down in history as a day like no other. A bomb planted in the church's basement exploded, killing the four girls and injuring many others. It was "a moment that the world would never forget," Lonnie Bunch told The Washington Post. Bunch is the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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