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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1025712" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 15 Sep 1963, Four black schoolgirls killed in BirminghamOn this day in 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in&nbsp;Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls.With its large African-American congregation, the 16th Street Baptist Church served as a meeting place for civil&nbsp;rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., who once called Birmingham a &quot;symbol of hardcore resistance to integration.&quot; Alabama&#039;s governor, George Wallace, made preserving racial segregation one of the central goals of his administration, and Birmingham had one of the most violent and lawless chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.A sad day in this country.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1025712, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 15 Sep 1963, Four black schoolgirls killed in Birmingham [/B][B]On this day in 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls. [/B] [B]With its large African-American congregation, the 16th Street Baptist Church served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., who once called Birmingham a "symbol of hardcore resistance to integration." Alabama's governor, George Wallace, made preserving racial segregation one of the central goals of his administration, and Birmingham had one of the most violent and lawless chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. [SIZE=4]A sad day in this country.[/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]

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