16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING

SEPTEMBER 15, 1963

• 4 girls getting ready in basement
• 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
• 'Youth Day'
• Church held over 400 negroes including 80 children

ATTACK

• Explosion from under stone staircase
• Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Rosamond Robertson,14, and Cynthia Diane Morris Wesley,14 all died immediately
• Stained glass with only Christ's face blown out

AFTERMATH

• MLK sent telegram to Alabama Gov. George Wallace
• Negroes began rioting in the streets