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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing
Definition
- On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in a basement lounge of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and injuring more than 20 others. Although authorities had sufficient evidence to prosecute several members of the Ku Klux Klan shortly after the bombing, nearly 40 years passed before all the suspects were brought to trial. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Sixteenth_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
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