50th Anniversary ~ Four Little Girls, Church Bombing - Sep 13,2013

Join Prof. Leslye Joy Allen as she lectures on The Four Little Girls~ The Play Four Little Girls The Murdering of The Four Little Girls is the most despicable hate-crime during the height of the civil-rights movement. The bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice. Timeline: Martin Luther King Children's crusade May 2- 7th 1963, 3,000 children arrested - Aug.28th King refers to the Chiildren's bail money (promissory) in his "I have A Dream Speech" The bombing, the fourth such incident in less than a month. These tensions were supposedly aroused by desegregation of three schools. None of the 50 bombings of Negros and their property, in Birmingham since World War II have been solved. The bombing of The Four Little Girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church brought hundreds of angry Negroes pourin<

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