Today in Peace & Justice history on September 15, 1963
During Sunday School, 15 sticks of dynamite blew apart
the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama,
killing four children in the basement changing room,
and injuring 23 others. Prime suspects were the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
and Nacirema (both white supremacist organizations;
Nacirema is "American" spelled backwards).
A week before the bombing Governor George C. Wallace
had told The New York Times that to stop integration,
Alabama needed a "few first-class funerals."
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