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A couple of decades before Julie Buckner Armstrong was born in Birmingham, Alabama, Black families began to buy homes in neighborhoods there legally designated as whites-only under one of the strictest systems of segregation in the country. The local reaction earned the city the nickname Bombingham,

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On the morning of September 15, 1963, Rev. John H. Cross Jr. and members of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, were preparing to start the Youth Day worship service when a bomb went off. “I will never forget that horrific noise,” said Barbara Cross, the reverend’s eldest daughter. An FBI investigation later discovered that four Ku Klux Klan members (KKK) had planted dynamite under a cement staircase outside of the church.

By Kara Nelson, CNN

(CNN) — On the morning of September 15, 1963, Rev. John H. Cross Jr. and members of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, were preparing to start the

A civil rights scholar’s memoir of her girlhood in a city at a center of the movement’s history brings insight.

The police knew who did it, but they werent going to bring them to the bar of justice, so they just kept it quiet. they even gave these men nicknames. they called cherry "cherry bomb" and they called chambliss "dynamite bob." they knew who it were. >> the birmingham police department and the jefferson county sheriffs office, their investigation of the bombing was aimed at this crazy, nutty theory that the blacks themselves had set the bomb. being that they wanted to bomb their own church so that...