What is 16th Street Baptist Church bombing?
The '''16th Street Baptist Church bombing''' was an act of [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] [[terrorism]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/16th-Street-Baptist-Church-bombing |title=16th Street Baptist Church bombing |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=May 27, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2151804,00.html |title=Fifty Years After Bombing, Birmingham is Resurrected |first=John |last=Meacham |author-link =John Meacham |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=September 23, 2013 |access-date=May 27, 2019 }}</ref> which happened at the [[African Americans|African-American]] [[16th Street Baptist Church]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Three 14-year-old girls and an 11-year-old girl were killed. Four members of a local [[Ku Klux Klan]] chapter planted at least 15 sticks of [[dynamite]] beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ajccenter.wfu.edu/2013/09/15/tih-1963-16th-street-baptist-church/ |title=Today in 1963: The Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church|website=ajccenter.wfu.edu |date=2013-09-15 |access-date=2017-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813104615/http://ajccenter.wfu.edu/2013/09/15/tih-1963-16th-street-baptist-church/ |archive-date=2017-08-13 }}</ref> Although the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] had concluded in 1965 that the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing had been committed by four known Klansmen and [[Racial segregation|segregationist]]s: [[Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.]], [[Herman Frank Cash]], [[Robert Edward Chambliss]], and [[Bobby Frank Cherry]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/05/birm-m20.html |work=[[World Socialist Web Site]] |date=May 20, 2000 |title=Former Klansmen indicted for murder in 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama church |first=Jerry |last=White |access-date=May 27, 2019 }}</ref> no prosecutions were conducted until 1977. ==References== {{reflist}}