Here’s a look at the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing that killed four African American girls during church services in 1963. September 15, 2013, marked the 50th anniversary of the bombing. Facts ...

In the months before six Black children were murdered on a single day in Birmingham, Alabama, the city emerged as a flashpoint for increasingly tense confrontations between civil rights activists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bomb exploded in the basement of a Birmingham, Alabama, church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four young Black girls. Today, a ...

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights ...

Thomas E. Blanton, the last surviving Ku Klux Klan member convicted in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four girls, died Friday. He was 81. Jefferson ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — This Black History Month, students at South Hampton K-8 School in Birmingham had the chance to take part in a frank discussion between two women who have forged an unlikely ...

House and Senate leaders on Tuesday awarded Congress’ highest civilian honor to four girls killed in the Alabama church bombing nearly 50 years ago that became a watershed moment in the civil rights ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's parole board decided Wednesday against freeing a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four Black girls more than 50 years ago. This ...

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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a focal point of the nation’s struggle for civil rights where four girls were killed in a bombing on Sept. 15, 1963, was has been awarded a $300,000 grant to establish ...

WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders are formally awarding Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing nearly 50 years ago.