Don't forget these delightful Americans.
"The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing was a racially motivated terrorist incident at Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street Baptist Church that proved to be a turning point of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The attack was designed to incite fear into the community supporting the civil rights movement. Instead, it created a public outrage and spurred the civil rights movement on to success.
The three-story 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama had been a rallying point for many of civil rights activities. In the early morning hours of Sunday, September 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan members Bobby Frank Cherry and Robert Edward Chambliss (aka Dynamite Bob) planted 19 sticks of dynamite in the basement of the Church.
At about 10:25 AM, with 80 children walking into the basement assembly room for closing prayers after hearing the ironically-titled sermon, "The Love That Forgives" on the church's Youth Day, the bombs exploded. Four young girls — Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair — were killed in the blast, while 22 more were injured...."
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