Birmingham Alabama was known for its civil rights violence, bombings and strong "southern tradition" it was also one of the battle fields of the civil rights movements. On a Sunday Morning in 1963 four little African American girls would attend their last church service. The sixteenth street Baptist church was a church known for housing civil rights leaders and many racist whites knew this. On the morning of september 15, 1963 reports came in of a white man getting out of his car and being seen wandering around the church soon after at 10:22 am a bomb went off killing four little girls. Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair all young girls were killed in the blast. The case was unsolved for sometime until Attorney General Bill Baxley reopened the case presenting evidence that was not used in the first case and found Robert Chambliss guilty and sentenced to life in prison. ALthough the families will never fully heal many of the the parents in the movie seemed to be a little better off knowing that Chambliss was found guilty.
"BOMBINGHAM"
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