16th Street Baptist Church bombing

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Ku Klux Klan attack church bombing hate crime mass murder racist attack terrorist attack

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a 1963 Ku Klux Klan terrorist attack on a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African American girls and became a pivotal moment in the U.S. civil rights movement.

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1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ku Klux Klan attack ⓘ church bombing ⓘ hate crime ⓘ mass murder ⓘ racist attack ⓘ terrorist attack ⓘ
aftermath	helped build support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ helped build support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ
category	1963 crimes in the United States ⓘ attacks on churches in the United States ⓘ racially motivated violence in the United States ⓘ
city	Birmingham NERFINISHED ⓘ
commemoratedBy	16th Street Baptist Church memorials ⓘ Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ statue of the four girls in Birmingham ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
date	1963-09-15 ⓘ
day	15 ⓘ
dayOfWeek	Sunday ⓘ
FBIInvestigationName	BAPBOMB NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalPeriod	civil rights movement ⓘ
investigatingAgency	Birmingham Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ
KingResponse	Martin Luther King Jr. sent a telegram to Alabama Governor George Wallace condemning the bombing ⓘ
legalOutcome	Bobby Cherry convicted of murder in 2002 ⓘ Robert Chambliss convicted of murder in 1977 ⓘ Thomas Blanton convicted of murder in 2001 ⓘ
location	16th Street Baptist Church NERFINISHED ⓘ Birmingham, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ
mediaCoverage	extensive national and international news coverage ⓘ
memorialDay	September 15 ⓘ
month	September ⓘ
motive	opposition to the civil rights movement ⓘ white supremacy ⓘ
notableCommentator	Martin Luther King Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ
numberOfFatalities	4 ⓘ
numberOfInjured	at least 14 ⓘ
occasion	Sunday school ⓘ
perpetrator	Bobby Frank Cherry NERFINISHED ⓘ Herman Frank Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Edward Chambliss NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ
perpetratorOrganization	Ku Klux Klan NERFINISHED ⓘ United Klans of America NERFINISHED ⓘ
publicReaction	condemnation from civil rights leaders ⓘ widespread outrage in the United States ⓘ
relatedEvent	Birmingham campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Civil Rights Act of 1964 NERFINISHED ⓘ Voting Rights Act of 1965 NERFINISHED ⓘ
significance	galvanized national support for civil rights legislation ⓘ pivotal moment in the U.S. civil rights movement ⓘ
state	Alabama ⓘ
target	16th Street Baptist Church NERFINISHED ⓘ African American congregation ⓘ
time	about 10:22 a.m. Central Daylight Time ⓘ
typeOfExplosive	TNT ⓘ
victim	Addie Mae Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Carole Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ Cynthia Wesley NERFINISHED ⓘ Denise McNair NERFINISHED ⓘ
victimGroup	African American children ⓘ
weapon	dynamite ⓘ
year	1963 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Claude Wesley → associatedWithEvent → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

Cynthia Dionne Morris → causeOfDeath → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

Mississippi Goddam → inspiredBy → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

Cynthia Dionne Morris → notableEvent → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

Cynthia Dionne Morris → significantEvent → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Diane Robertson → victimOf → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

subject surface form: Carole Robertson

Claude Wesley → victimOf → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

subject surface form: Cynthia Wesley

Gertrude Wesley → victimOf → 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ

subject surface form: Cynthia Wesley