Edgar Hoover closed the bombing investigation without prosecutions nor filing chargesġ00 Dollars fine for Robert Chambliss in addition to the initial short 6-month jail sentence (until he was finally convicted in 1977)Ģ00 Church members attending Sunday school classes when the dynamite went off at the 16th Street Baptist ChurchĨ000 Approximate number of mourners that Dr. The question raised by the film prompted the federal government to declassify its files on the bombing, and the newly-available evidence allowed U.S. Johnson signed the Civil Rights ActĦ8 Year that FBI chairman J. and Bobby Cherry were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the bombing. The bombing killed four young AfricanAmerican girls (Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair). Earlier that morning, under the cover of darkness, Klansmen Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Robert Edward Chambliss and Bobby Frank Cherry had planted a bomb under the stairs outside the restroom window. Although the FBI had concluded in 1965 that the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing had been committed by four known Klansmen and segregationists: Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank Cherry, no prosecutions were conducted until 1977. (born June 20, 1930) was convicted in 2001 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Moments later a blast ripped through the room, killing all four and severely injuring Sarah Collins, Addie Mae’s younger sister. is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment (2000)ģ9 Years before Bobby Frank Cherry is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment (2002)Ĥ5 Years after the bombing when three white men in Springfield, Massachusetts, set ablaze the Macedonia Church of God in Christ hours after Obama’s inauguration (2008)ĥ0 Years after the bombing when the five girls were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest civilian honors in America survivor Sarah Collins Rudolph initially declined to attend the ceremony (2013)ĥ2 Years after the bombing when 21-year-old white supremist Dylan Roof kills 9 and injures 3 at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina (2015)Ħ3 Year of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AlabamaĦ4 Year that Lyndon B. In the early 2000s, Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. Blanton was thir Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. 16 th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed in 1963Ģ0 Approximate other members of the congregation injured in the bombingģ1 Years after the bombing when Herman Cash dies without conviction (1994)ģ3 Years after the bombing when the Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, is set on fire as part of an 18-month stretch of arson directed at southern black churches (1996)ģ7 Years before Thomas E.
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