Until justice rolls down
Subtitle: the Birmingham church bombing case
By: Frank Sikora.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Murder -- Alabama -- Birmingham.; African Americans -- Crimes against -- Alabama -- Birmingham.; Bombings -- Alabama -- Birmingham.; Bombing investigation -- Alabama -- Birmingham.; Hate crimes -- Alabama -- Birmingham.
Description: "It was a time when Martin Luther King, Jr., rallied black children and adults day after day to march in Birmingham, Alabama, seeking civil rights...a time when Ku Klux Klan was active in the city and the countryside of Alabama, using 19th-century tactics to keep blacks 'in their place.' In 1963, the civil rights movement was gaining momentum in the Deep South, with the activity in Birmingham receiving national attention. In the midst of it all came the worst act of terrorism to occur in that movement. One Sunday in Birmingham in September 1963, a cache of dynamite ripped through the walls of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Within seconds four young black girls lay dead. Civil rights leaders and police alike had feared that the church might be the target of a KKK bomb team. The deaths spurred the Kennedy administration to send an army of FBI agents to Alabama and led directly to the passage of the Civil Rights Act."--Book Flap.
Notes: Includes index.