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

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 ...

In September 1963, a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young black girls attending Sunday school. Activists who were there ...

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

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) --Eric Robert Rudolph, the serial bombing suspect who eluded authorities for five years in the mountains of North Carolina, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stanley, who’s also part of Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, heard presentations from the sisters of two of four girls killed in the bombing of the church Sept. 15, 1963. BIRMINGHAM ...

The case haunted Birmingham for years. Four black girls in Alabama had been killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church — a crime that shocked the country and helped fuel the ...

IRA suspects believed to be behind the Birmingham pub bombings will not be named during new inquests, a coroner has ruled. Senior coroner Sir Peter Thornton QC said "the perpetrator issue is not ...