bombings

An account of the 1963 KKK bombing of a church in Birmingham in which four African-American girls were killed, discussing the FBI's failure to solve the crime, and examining the efforts of Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley to win justice--finally convicting one man in 1977.

American journalist Christopher Lucas, on assignment in Jerusalem to investigate religious fanatics, is drawn into a dangerous struggle when he stumbles upon a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount.

Describes terrorist groups and explains how they are typically organized around religious, political, social, or other ideological causes, and how these groups use violence to create fear in order to achieve their goals.

Describes the September 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan that left four young girls dead and several injured, the rise of the Klan after the Civil War, and the civil rights movement.

Provides an account of the racially-motivated bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, which resulted in the deaths of four children, and discusses how the tragedy spurred the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation.

Describes the feelings of a fictional character who witnessed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.