What is the historical significance of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church?

Answer by  tamkees (3203)

Founded in 1873 and still in operation today, this largely African-American, Birmingham, Alabama church was a central meeting place for Civil Rights activists in the 1960s. At the height of the movement in September 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted 19 sticks of dynamite outside the church basement. The resulting explosion killed four young girls.

Answer by  dlraska (460)

It is a large, predominantly African American Baptist church in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. In September 1963, it was the target of the racially motivated 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four girls in the midst of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Answer by  nuttree (1596)

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was a center for the Birmingham civil rights campaign in the 1960s. In 1963, Klansmen bombed the church on a Sunday morning, killing four girls.

Answer by  spellcrafted (72)

The Ku Klux Klan bombed this church in 1963. Four girls were killed in the basement of the church. This event helped to solidify the civil rights movement and Civil Rights Act that was passed in 1964.