Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 step#4

September 15, 1963
there was a bomb in Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church which resulted in the death of four innocent black girls, was the nadir of the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham and perhaps one of the darkest days in Birmingham's history. there was a bomb an 4 littel girl die. City authorities, never sympathetic to blacks, did very little to bring the bombers to justice. Not until 1977 was one of the bombers convicted. Locally, the bombing brought the factional Civil Rights leaderstogether. Nationally, the bombing gave the movement not just a face, but four faces, four young, innocent faces.the parent got sad and they told story about therr dauther.

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