EOTO #3: 4 Little Girls Church Bombing

On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama. The explosion would result in the deaths of 4 little girls attending the church for Sunday worship Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11) where all killed while preparing for Sunday school.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the booming as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity". The bombings helped refocus national attention back onto Birmingham which was considered one of if not the most racist cities in the United States at the time.

Even though the event received national attention very little was done. It would be years before any people where formally charged for the bombings. Although the FBI had concluded in 1965 that the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing had been committed by four known Ku Klux Klansmen and segregationists: Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank Cherry. No prosecutions were conducted until 1977, when Robert Chambliss was tried and convicted of the first-degree murder of one of the victims, 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/04/30/16th-street-baptist-church-bombing-survivor