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This is a video for my College Writing II course at Kent State University. Enjoy. I do not own any of the images or audio used for this project. Music - 'Birmingham Sunday' by Joan Baez

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The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15 was the third bombing in 11 days, after a federal court order had come down mandating the integration of Alabama’s school system. In the aftermath of the bombing, thousands of angry black protesters gathered at the scene of the bombing. When Governor Wallace sent police and state troopers to break the protests up, violence broke out across the city; a number of protesters were arrested, and two young African American men were killed (one by police) before the National Guard was called in to restore order. King later spoke before 8,000 people at the funeral for three of the girls (the family of the fourth girl held a smaller private service), fueling the public outrage now mounting across the country.

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In a bittersweet irony, the Birmingham church bombing catapulted the civil rights movement to a new stage, and ultimately helped influence the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But the immediate effect of the deaths, in the face of vaunted American ideas like justice and liberty, was to reveal a country that had refused to take an honest look in the mirror.

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The Bermingham Bombings Marked the turning point in U.S. during the Civil Rights Movement. There was 3 bombings in Eleven days . This bombing occurred on September 5, 1963 at 16th street baptist church was an act of white supremacist. Four members of the KKK planted 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the Church front steps.

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September 15, 1963 -- A dynamite bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson
1965 -- Birmingham FBI agents recommend that at least four suspects be charged with the bombing. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover blocks the prosecution of the suspects, saying the chance of winning a conviction was "remote."
1968 -Federal authorities pull out of the investigation without charges being filed.

1971 -Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley reopens the case.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Civil Rights organization founded in 1957, goal was to create a political morality play so compelling that the Kennedv administration would be forced to intervene
Congress on Racial Equality - goal was to bring equality for all people

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U.S. Civil Rights activist who led the fight against segregation & other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama

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Leader of Civil Rights Movement minister & close friend of MLK

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American Baptist minister & activist who was leader in Civil Rights Movement . Best known for his role in nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs

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The People who were involved in the Birmingham Bombings used bombs as a tactic to kill civil rights activists.