New Podcast Episode: The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
59 years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of this crime behind bars. The suspects were members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the all-white, segregationist officials in the area weren’t especially inclined to pursue them. Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. held marches and protests in solidarity with disenfranchised black people who sought equal rights for their community.
