16th Street Baptist Church bombing
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title:
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity," the ex
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1963 terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
date created:
2003-10-15T05:59:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:39:03Z
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