16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A crowd looks on as FBI bomb experts comb the wreckage in the aftermath of the previous day's bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 16th September 1963. Four girls were killed, and 22 injured in the attack on the African American church by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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September 16, 1963
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- Birmingham - Alabama,
- 1963,
- Bombing,
- Alabama - US State,
- 16th Street Baptist Church - Birmingham,
- USA,
- FBI,
- 1960-1969,
- Adult,
- African-American People,
- Archival,
- Civil Rights,
- Conflict,
- Crowd of People,
- Curiosity,
- Destruction,
- Gulf Coast States,
- Large Group Of People,
- Looking,
- Men,
- Mid Adult,
- Mid Adult Men,
- People,
- Photography,
- Politics and Government,
- Racism,
- Social Issues,
- Social Movement,
- Spectator,
- Terrorism,
- Vertical,
- Wreck,