Hundreds of people gather at Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist Church to mark the 63rd anniversary of the 1963 church bombing. The event commemorates the lives lost when dynamite detonated during preparations for Sunday services.
The sources describe the attack as being carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan, and they note that four girls were killed. In addition to the anniversary observances, reporting says the church marks the milestone with the opening of a new visitor center. The visitor center is presented as a place to help visitors learn about the history of the bombing and the church’s role in the civil rights era. Different outlets focus on the scale of the gathering and the historical framing, while all situate the event in the same timeline and location.
