#16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing

[trascapades]

🕊🕯#ArtIsAWeapon

#NeverForget #Cynthia Wesley #CaroleRobertson #AddieMaeCollins (all 14 years old), and 11-year-old #DeniseMcNair - The four girls murdered in the #16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing 60 years ago today (Sept. 15, 1963) in Birmingham, Alabama. The heinous act of white supremacist domestic terrorism was carried out soon after the 1963 #MarchonWashington for Jobs and Freedom (Aug. 28, 1963.)

#SarahCollinsRudolph was severely injured in the bombing and two Black boys were murdered that same day in Birmingham: 16-year-old #JohnnyRobinson and 13-year-old #VirgilWare.

Image 1: Quilt by artist Sylvia Hernandez’s @quiltgirl61 #4littlegirls #16stbaptistchurch

Video and caption reposted from @nmaahc #OnThisDay in 1963, a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 little girls—11-year-old Carol Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Diane Wesley and Addie Mae Collins—and injuring several others.

This atrocity marked the third bombing in 11 days in Birmingham, Alabama, following the federal court order integrating Alabama schools. Shards from the church's stained-glass window are on display in our exhibition "Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation" as a reminder of this tragic incident.

Racially motivated attacks on Black people, their homes and their churches grew so common that the city was referred to as “Bombingham.” African American civil rights activists made Birmingham a focal point of their desegregation campaign.

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📸 1.2.3.4. Courtesy of Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 5. Stained glass rosette shard from the 16th Street Baptist Church. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Family of Rev. Norman C. "Jim" Jimerson and Melva Brooks Jimerson 6. The damaged interior of the church is shown in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Courtesy of Tom Self/Birmingham News, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#Bombingham #ThisIsAmerica

[troub1995]

Without scorn or sarcasm, I say 'Thanks, Obama!' Thank you for doing one last good thing before leaving office. Thank you for Birmingham and Anniston! #thanksobama #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #presidentbarackobama #presidentobama #barackobama #16thstreetbaptistchurch #16thstreetbaptistchurchbombing @michelleobama

[crazycoolgroove]

On September 15, 1963, #AddieMaeCollins, #CarolDeniseMcNair, #CaroleRobertson, and #CynthiaWesley were killed when a bomb planted by members of the #KuKluxKlan exploded at the #16thStreetBaptistChurch in #BirminghamAL. Today marks the #55thAnniversary of the #September151963 #16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing which took the lives of these #4LittleGirls and wounded 22 others. #FBI concluded in 1965 that the bombing had been committed by four known #KuKluxKlansmen - #BobbyFrankCherry #HermanFrankCash #RobertEdwardChambliss #ThomasEdwinBlantonJr. No prosecutions ensued until 1977, when Chambliss was tried and convicted of the first degree murder of one of the victims, 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Cherry were each convicted of four counts of murder and sentenced to #LifeImprisonment in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Herman Cash, who died in 1994, was never charged with his involvement in the bombing. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackGirlsMatter #BlackChildrenMatter #Birmingham #BirminghamAlabama #Alabama #CrazyCoolGroovy #CCG #CCGalatoire https://www.instagram.com/p/BnxWommHuvQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1js3molo89lod

[peachesncreammc]

#CivilRightsMarch SelmaToMontgomery #IHadADream #Speech #MontgomeryBoycott #BlackPower #GreatestManOnTheEarth #KnowYourHistory #KnowYourHertiage #EqualityForAll #LETfreedomRing #Atlanta #Montgomery #Selma #Birmingham #Martin #CivilRights #16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing #LittleGirlsKilled #killed #Churchbombing #bomb #America #CityOfBirmingham #Alabama #NeverForgetten

[lastlooksshortfilm]

We can never forget them! #DeniseMcNair #CynthiaWesley #AddieMaeCollins #CarolRobertson #September15th1963 #OurHistory #16thstreetbaptistchurchbombing #wewillneverforget #4littleblackgirls We also remember #SarahCollinsRudolph who was severely injured in the bombing and two boys were murdered that same day in #Birmingham 16 year old #JohnnyRobinson and 13 year old #VirgilWare #GodBless

[dscola]

When they say get over it, I remind them of things like the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. We will never forget Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins--all 14 years old, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. They were murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in an act of terrorism by a Klan related group on Sept. 15, 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. We also remember Sarah Collins Rudolph who was severely injured in the bombing and two boys murdered that same day in Birmingham: 16-year-old Johnny Robinson and 13-year-old Virgil Ware. Get over it? Easy for them to say. #16thstreetbaptistchurchbombing #4littleblackgirls #kukluxklan #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #blackhidstory #wewillneverforget #thingstheydontteachyou #hiddenhistory

[peachesncreammc]

#CivilRightsMarch SelmaToMontgomery #IHadADream #Speech #MontgomeryBoycott #BlackPower #GreatestManOnTheEarth #KnowYourHistory #KnowYourHertiage #EqualityForAll #LETfreedomRing #Atlanta #Montgomery #Selma #Birmingham #Martin #CivilRights #16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing #LittleGirlsKilled #killed #Churchbombing #bomb #America #CityOfBirmingham #Alabama #NeverForgetten

[dscola]

When they say get over it, I remind them of things like the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. We will never forget Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins--all 14 years old, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. They were murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in an act of terrorism by a Klan related group on Sept. 15, 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. We also remember Sarah Collins Rudolph who was severely injured in the bombing and two boys murdered that same day in Birmingham: 16-year-old Johnny Robinson and 13-year-old Virgil Ware. Get over it? Easy for them to say. #16thstreetbaptistchurchbombing #4littleblackgirls #kukluxklan #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #blackhidstory #wewillneverforget #thingstheydontteachyou #hiddenhistory #treasureourown #neverforget #maga https://www.instagram.com/p/BZD3QPUgmZS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=itc60m4qqp3h