On September 15th, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed four little girls and injured 22 others. In the violent aftermath of the bombing, two little boys were murdered.
The tragedy was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement and gave the city a new nickname: "Bombingham.” Host Frank Stasio talks with Billy Barnes, a Chapel Hill resident who attended the funeral for the four girls. He will also speak with Georgia State University history professor Glenn Eskew who authored "But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle," (University of North Carolina Press, 1997); and Fayetteville State University English professor Carole Weatherford, author of "Birmingham, 1963” (Boyd Mills Press, 2013).
