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The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought police throughout the downtown area.
The city of Birmingham initially offered a $52,000 reward for the arrest of the bombers. Governor Wallace offered an additional $5,000 on behalf of the state of Alabama. Although this donation was accepted, [ 54 ] : 274 Martin Luther King Jr. is known to have sent Wallace a telegram saying, "the blood of four little children ... is on your hands.
After King was arrested and jailed, he wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail, which became noted as a moral argument for civil rights activism. The goal of the campaign was to gain mass arrests of non-violent protesters and overwhelm the judicial and penal systems.
Birmingham police estimate that 168 shots were fired at the Monarch Ridge apartment building around 10 p.m. local time on Aug. 20. When police arrived at the scene, ...
The shooting was the third quadruple homicide in Birmingham in 2024. In February, four men were killed in a drive-by shooting near a car wash. [3] In July, four were killed and ten were injured in a drive-by shooting at a birthday party hosted by a nightclub, [4] [5] which at the time, was the city's largest mass shooting in 2024.
Meshaq Berryman fired four shots at gang rivals in the Handsworth area of Birmingham [West Midlands Police] A gunman who opened fire at gang rivals attending a wake has been jailed for life, with ...
A manhunt is underway for “multiple shooters” who killed four people and injured 17 when they “fired upon a large group of people” in Birmingham, Alabama, police said Sunday.
Johnny Robinson (1947–1963) was a young African-American teenager who, at age 16, was shot and killed by a police officer in the unrest following the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. A Birmingham police officer, Jack Parker, who was riding in the back seat of a police car, shot and killed Robinson.