16th Street Church In The 1960s

The church had many thing to it and the town loved the church, many people went to it every Sunday and Wednesday. The 16th Street church was located in Birmingham, Alabama The 16th street church was founded in 1871, the Birmingham church was the first and the largest African American church in Birmingham. The church, originally known as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham, was founded in 1873. This was just 10 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and two years after the founding of the city of Birmingham. Many of the civil right protest happened in the 1960s at the streets of the 16th street baptist church. The church had a significant religious center for the city, and a routine meeting place for civil right organizers

The FBI documents and the surveillance tapes. Thomas Blanton was convicted of murder in 2001 and was sentenced to life in prison, Bobby Frank Cherry trial, couple of his family members came forward to testify against him, and was convicted of four counts of murder and was sentenced life to prison, he died in 2004. No one was indicted for the murders until 1977, when Chambliss was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Herman Cash died in 1994 before he was ever charged. Thomas Blanton was convicted in 2001 and Cherry in 2002. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Blanton is the only one of the four still living( Garrow). This is important because people need to know that these four guys were the reason that the church bombing happened. The 16th street bombing will always have a effect on the world to this

The effect will be on the people in the church and the loved ones that lost a friend or a family member. The state of Alabama lives with it everyday, because it affected many people and many families. Not only the people in Birmingham, Alabama will have the effect of the bombing but the United States will always have effect of the 16th street church bombing because everyone everywhere was devastated to hear that the church was bombed and four little girls died, men and women got hurt in the bombing ("We've Come This Far by Faith." ) .This is important because not a lot of people know about the 16th street church bombing and how the people in Birmingham, Alabama will always have an effect of the bombing for the rest of their