Timeline Sunday 15 September 1963

Events on Sunday 15 September 1963 1

• 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing Ku Klux Klan bombing kills four Black girls in Birmingham A bomb planted by Klansmen exploded at a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls preparing for Sunday service. The attack came weeks after the city's desegregation agreement and drew national outrage. It became one of the defining atrocities of the civil rights era.