The Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963, killing four young African American girls. This was a turning point in the civil rights movement leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
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