The 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham

The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham , Alabama

The story of the 1963 bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham , Alabama began when members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb inside the building . Yet the story did not end there and after almost four decades later some of the alleged perpetrators of the crime are still awaiting trial . The slow-paced progress in the investigation and apprehension of the murderers is simply one aspect of the story . The Birmingham bombing is one of the most abhorrent crimes committed by

br racists . It is a senseless and brutal act , almost impossible to comprehend for those in the present . There is a need to know why there are those who assert that they know the truth and yet will never hesitate to kill children for the sake of ideology

Background

When three men entered the premises of the 16th Street Baptist Church to deliver their deadly package they were about to lit the fuse that would not only ignite an inordinate number of dynamite - and destroy an age-old landmark in Birmingham - but also set fire the Southern States and initiate an escalation in hate related crimes . The planting of the bomb changed the course of U .S . history but it was simply the culmination of centuries of hate and racism

Even after the death of four innocent children America was slow to react while at the same time acts of violence and discrimination continued in the aftermath of the bombing . The reason can be simply attributed to a deep-rooted problem , African-Americans , up until that point continued to struggle in their fight for equality in a land that long considered this minority group as some sort of a sub-human species . They had to fight for what is right but they could not do so using the white man 's rules they had to resist but not with the use of weapons but reason , appealing to the white man 's sense of right and wrong

Truth hurts and in this case it is even hard to swallow . But it is plain to see , a casual study of U .S . history will unearth the awful truth - for centuries , the American South was sustained by the blood and sweat of African slaves . In a time when Europe was way past the Age of Enlightenment , there were many Americans who continue to believe that the white man has the right to own men , women , and children as if they are part of his livestock . In a time when the whole world applauded the creation of the U .S . Constitution , a symbolic document that asserts man 's equality in the eyes of God , Americans continue to adhere to an already obsolete belief that there is an exception to this rule and that African-Americans are not deserving of human rights that the rest of the population so cherished

The heroes of the American Revolution - the successful War for Independence against British hegemony - went into the battlefield...