Original caption : Birmingham Alabama Bombings, This picture of burning building taken seconds after the big blast. Walls are knocked out, debris scattered by force of the explosion. Dynamite in the woods, Original caption : Birmingham Alabama Bombs, evidence in the woods, dynamite, Original caption : "Birmingham Alabama Bombings, Negro home damaged by bomb thrown in the yard.
Police are shown inspecting the scene afterward. Fire and dynamite. Original caption : "Birmingham Alabama Bombing, Fire and dynamite--These two North Center Street Negro homes withstood dynamite attacks, but fell early yesterday to fire. The entire back of the home shown at left, North Center Street, was burned down Interior of both homes were burned out. Sticks of dynamite once were tossed in front of both homes.
Another time the building on the left was badly damaged by dynamite which landed on top of the porch roof. Other dynamite was found in the grass alongside the house. Original caption: "Birmingham Alabama Bombing scene,". All rights reserved About Us. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local.
Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Ad Choices. The bombings continued until a group of African Americans was able to hire a white infiltrator who attended Ku Klux Klan meetings and informed residents of planned attacks.
Armed men would then lie in wait and fire shots at Klansmen when they arrived. The bombings slowed considerably until the dramatic Birmingham Campaign and imminent prospect of school desegregation touched off another wave of violence, aimed at Civil Rights leaders and sympathizers. While Birmingham came to symbolize the brutality and horrors of the civil rights movement, it also was early to recognize its key role in history. When the Civil Rights Institute opened in , it became one of the first places in the country to honor the civil rights movement.
Since then Alabama has been a national leader in recognizing, and promoting the history. Exhibits include a burned out bus representing the attacks on the Freedom Riders, along with video excerpts from a CBS television documentary about the city that shocked much of the nation.
Another highlight: The jail cell from which King wrote his famous letter from Birmingham Jail. The eloquent plea for non-violent protest has been called the most important document of the civil rights era. Elsewhere in town, you can find an historic marker in back of the old Birmingham City Jail at 6 th Avenue South. Riders were beaten in Anniston, Alabama, about 60 miles to the east.
A week later, they were beaten in Montgomery. Klansmen placed ten sticks of dynamite by the building early in the morning of September 15 There were other casualties too. Sarah Collins Rudolph, the younger sister of Addie Mae Collins, was 12 and blinded in one eye by flying glass.
The church served as a staging area for the marches, which is why it was targeted by the Klan. A newly upgraded basement memorial area remembers the victims, and a wall clock is forever stopped at a. King spoke at the funeral for three of the girls.
Everyone has heard of Martin Luther King, but few know remember Fred Shuttlesworth, who has been called the bravest man of the civil rights movement. While King often took the diplomatic approach, Shuttlesworth favored direct action. The story of my Doppelganger, is also, in a way, the rest of my story—what happened to him because of me. I do not recall committing any overt and individual acts of racism in my years in Fountain Heights. But in terms of my privileged claim to always scarce or moderately scare resources and prospects, I received more than he did.
I benefited at his expense. My Doppelganger has the right to tell his own story—apart from me and from you. I hope that he has had or will have before he dies an opportunity to do that. And in the twisted ironies of injustice, I probably need his story more than he needs mine. I hope so anyway. For his sake. It is in this context of encircling and terrifying whiteness and its privileges that I want to think of justice and press the case for reparations for these terrible crimes.
In Book 4 of the City of God, St. Augustine writes of the relationship between unjust governments and theft. And theft in any and all forms demands restitution and repair.
The passage is worth quoting. When you hear it or read it think of Birmingham and all the other birminghams around our nation and throughout our world—all those institutional, and social, and cultural injustices that stole with impunity from people of color, from women, and from those whose sexual orientations and behavior have been different from the majority.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity.
Chambliss, Thomas E. Blanton Jr. On May 17, Thomas E. Blanton, Jr. Cherry was convicted of murder the following year and died in prison in Herman Cash died in and was never brought to trial.
Fred Shuttlesworth. Questioned about how he felt about Birmingham now that he was in his eighties, and after enduring so much there—beatings, arrests, bombings—and now many years away and having had such a fruitful ministry in Cincinnati, the Rev. I have filled in the prose and made some additions, but the main contours of this reminiscence and the intentions of its convictions remain the same.
More than facts are at stake. But rather deep interpretive meanings that can also deconstruct and unsettle. Being so unsettled can be both a risk and a gift.
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