16thStreet Baptist Church – Birmingham, Ala.: Located across the street from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Inscripted is this: “Bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963, as an act of racially motivated terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U.S. 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
The church grounds, in ruins, after the bombing in August 1963, just two weeks after the “I Have a Dream” speech.
