In the Spike Lee film 4 Little Girls, it depicts the people and events leading up to the one of the most dreadful hate-crimes that occurred during the civil-rights movement in the city of Brimingham, Alabama. The wicked act was the church bombing which killed four little black girls respectively named Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Within this city segregation was still a major factor just like in many other cities in the United States. For a child living in that time it was hard to comprehend how institutions operated and treated certain people due to the color of one’s skin. Many African Americans protested for their rights, eventually Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to protest and support them. While protesting they would be constantly attacked and placed in jail. On one faithful Sunday as church service was occurring a bomb went off killing four little girls, the incident brought the nation to its knees. Throughout the film there were themes or colliding forces that dealt with authority and corruption, and youth and order. Within the film it was stated that the majority of the police force in Alabama were either …show more content…
One of the films messages was the attack on white women by so called black brutes. Many white Americans became frustrated to the point of lynching black men if they were accused of raping a white woman. Lynching was considered a civil act since this justified the crimes committed by black men. The man responsible for the church bombing which took the lives of four little girls was named Bob Chambliss. He saw in a newspaper that a white women was raped by a black man, this irritated him causing him to gather dynamite to commit the attack on the church. White Americans want to protect and value white womanhood from that of the African American