The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing was a crucial event in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. During the civil rights movement, it was a very racist time period. It consisted of the KKK, the separation of blacks and whites, and of course the church bombing.
Birmingham was a main part of the Civil Rights movement, Sixteenth Baptist Church was the organized place for the blacks. On September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, a bomb exploded on 16th street Baptist Church at 10:22 A. M.During a Sunday school session the ground floor of the church collapsed, four girls out of nearly 200 people died, some injured or paralyzed.
No-one was originally under arrest for this action. The city of Birmingham, Alabama was a very racist place to be. The blacks were always to be separated from the whites. Nothing they used could be like the whites such as: water fountain, bathroom, restaurant, buss, school or church. The Ku Klux Klan was against blacks, they would beat them or burn crosses on their yard.
The chief in the city, Bull Conner, was a very racist man and ordered the blacks to be sprayed with a fire hose and chased by dogs. Birmingham was also a very strong hold of the KKK. The KKK Birmingham was also a stronghold of the KKK. The influence of the KKK was such that children’s books that showed black and white rabbits together were banned from sale in book shops in the city. Segregation was the norm in the city.
Violence against the black community in Birmingham was not unusual but the deliberate bombing of a church took that violence to a new level.
