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Abbeville Police say a patrol officer saw smoke from First Baptist Church on 100 Columbia Road and called in the fire late Tuesday night, around 11:00 p.m. Search underway for missing Daleville man
Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as "Dynamite Bob", [1] was a white supremacist terrorist convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil ...
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. (June 20, 1938 – June 26, 2020) was an American terrorist and convicted felon, formerly serving four life sentences for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, which killed four African American girls (Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair). [1]
Read CNN’s 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Fast Facts and learn more about the attack on an Alabama church that killed four African-American girls.
Bobby Frank Cherry (June 20, 1930 – November 18, 2004) was an American white supremacist, terrorist, and Klansman who was convicted of murder in 2002 for his role in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.
December 24, 1956 — The home of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Black minister of Bethel Baptist Church and activist is bombed. [5] December 31, 1956 — A black home is bombed. [5] July 1957- A black home is bombed. [5] December 1957- five black homes are bombed. [5] Unknown date 1957 — Bomb at 1216 13th Street North in Fountain Heights. [4]
More than 50 years after a white man blew up a Birmingham, Ala., church, killing four Black girls inside, the lone survivor of the bombing finally got her long-awaited apology from the state.