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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 15. september 1963 / Timeline September 15, 1963

14. September 1963, 16. September 1963

09/15/1963
Terrorism ; USA
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 some 20 others. Prime suspects were the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Nacirema (white supremacist organizations; Nacirema, fittingly, was derived from "American" spelled backwards). A member of the church, studying on a scholarship in Paris at the time, was Birmingham High School student Angela Davis.
This event set off racial rioting and other violence in which two African-American boys were shot to death, and became a turning point in generating broad American sympathy for the civil rights movement.
- http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

09/15/1963

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