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Bombing Of The 16th Street Baptist Church at !0:22 a.m. on Sunday, September 15, 1963
Robert Chambliss, a member of the KKK, in 1963 was said to have been seen setting the box the bomb was in outside of the chuch the day that it happened. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, a week before the bombing told the New York Times that to stop integration Alabama needed `a few first-class funerals.'
Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). These are the four girls who were killed in the bombing. They were simply innocent children who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church.
IN MY OPINION. . . .
I think that the Civil Right Movement might have gotten better a lot sooner. There was really NO reason to bomb a church. People in 1963 who strongly believed in their religion and didn't want Civil Rights for African-Americans should be ashamed of themselves. Not only did they horribly and violently destroy OTHER peoples beliefes they let someone bomb a church. If this never would have happened then maybe African- Americans would've gotten what they wanted a little sooner and stopped all the things that White people were so strongly against.
George Wallace
Robert Chambliss
