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This Day in Legal History: The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite beneath the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—a hub of the civil rights movement—and detonated it on a Sunday morning. The blast killed four young Black girls: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair. It was an act of racial terrorism aimed at the heart of a community, and it became one of the galvanizing atrocities of the civil rights era.
The legal aftermath is a study in the agonizing slowness of…
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