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Bombingham is a nickname for Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement due to the 50 dynamite explosions that occurred in the city between 1947 and 1965. [1] The bombings were initially used against African Americans attempting to move into neighborhoods with entirely white residents.
Welsh craftsman and artist John Petts was inspired to construct and deliver the iconic stained-glass Wales Window of Alabama to the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1965. The Wales Window of Alabama is a large stained-glass edifice depicting a black Jesus, with arms outstretched, reminiscent of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
4 Little Girls is a 1997 American historical documentary film about the murder of four African-American girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rosamond Robertson) in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963.
Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2023 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 196,910 down 2% from the 2020 census, [3] making it Alabama's second-most populous city after Huntsville.
Allen's warning was disregarded by state Public Safety Director Al Lingo, who said he could "take care of" the Klan threat. [3] Martin Luther King Jr., left Birmingham for Atlanta. [4] Also during the day on May 11, Klan leaders from across the South were assembling in nearby Bessemer, Alabama for a rally.
Basement exhibition at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with pictures of the events of the Civil Rights Movement and the 1963 bombing of the church. The church was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on June 16, 1976. [1] On September 17, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, is a nonfiction book about the African-American civil rights movement written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2001.
It temporarily earned the sobriquet Bombingham due to over forty dynamite attacks that were carried out against African-Americans and civil rights activists between 1947 and 1965. [24] In March, local activist Fred Shuttlesworth had warned that the city was "a racial powder keg that would explode if local white supremacists were unduly provoked ...