A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were ...

On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church ...

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBMA) — On September 15, 1963, a tragedy happened at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama ...

On Sunday, 16th Street Baptist Church will hold its yearly commemorative service to honor the lives of four girls who were ...

On Sept. 15, 1963, 61 years ago, four young girls — 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, and Carole Robertson and 11-year-old Cynthia Wesley — were murdered in a bombing at the 16th Street ...

Sept. 16, 1963 -- Schools quiet after Birmingham church bombing (605) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 16, 1963 (UPI) - Negroes entered three integrated Birmingham schools without incident today in the ...

Martin Luther King Jr., held meetings at The 16th Street Baptist Church and it was third bombing that took place after integration was ordered in Alabama. As we know, Alabama was repository for the ...

It wasn’t to be. Cynthia and three other girls were killed that Sunday in a daylight bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. The killing of four innocent girls in a place ...

testifies that before the bombing, Chambliss confided to her that he had “enough stuff put away to flatten half of Birmingham.” November 18, 1977 – Chambliss is convicted of first-degree ...

The bombing created so much outrage it proved ... Martin Luther King Jr. eulogized three of the four victims during a funeral in Birmingham. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, King had challenged ...