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National Day of Mourning for the Children of Birmingham
Congress of Racial Equality and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Manhattan Branch
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States
On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan detonated a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young African American girls and injuring 22 other people. The event became a turning point of the Civil Rights Movement and led to increased support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Reaction to the bombing was illustrated by memorials held nationwide. The flyer displayed here is from a memorial held in New York soon after the tragic event.
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- Title: National Day of Mourning for the Children of Birmingham
- Creator: Congress of Racial Equality, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Manhattan Branch
- Subject Keywords: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963, Civil rights demonstrations--New York--New York, Negro American Labor Council
- Type: document
- Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
- Repository: Amistad Research Center
- Extent: 1 p.
- Date: c. 1963
- Collection: Eric Steele Wells papers
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