Four young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths. Montgomery County Public schools ordered to desegregate. It also sends delegates to the Democratic National Convention to protest and attempt to unseat the official all-white Mississippi contingent. Four young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, a popular location for civil rights meetings.
Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths.
Three Mississippi civil-rights workers are officially declared missing, having disappeared on June 21. Their murdered bodies are found after President Johnson sends military personnel to join the search party. It is later revealed that the police released the three men to the Ku Klux Klan. The trio had been working to register black voters. After serving as an administrative assistant more than 20 years, she retired in 1988.