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Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
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<blockquote data-quote="Inspired" data-source="post: 1452486" data-attributes="member: 4670"><p>Anyone who has the chance should go to the church, It's right outside Kelly Ingram park. there is a memorial in the church itself downstairs where the girls where playing before the church was bombed, there are pictures throughout history of all that has happened on those church steps. You can see the pictures of children protesting, and the police dogs, water hoses, and see things you won't be able to comprehend, things you didn't think humans were capable of. I got to see Cherry take the stand, that man showed no remorse at all for what he had done all those years ago. Racism is still very alive in Birmingaham , AL. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Officials in the police department, the FBI, and other government agencies knew this was the bloody handiwork of the Ku Klux Klan. For decades, the KKK had carried out all kinds of terror against Black people in Birmingham. There were 40 bombings between the end of WW2 and 1963. This is not to say that the Panthers did not have extremists on their side either, but they never went so far as to bomb a church and kill innocent children. </p><p></p><p>Four Klansmen were prime suspects: Robert Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash, and Thomas Blanton Jr. But none of them were arrested and charged, even though the FBI had more than enough evidence to implicate them. The case was officially closed in 1965 and wasn't re-opened until 1971. Chambliss was finally convicted of murder in 1977. Cash died in 1994 without ever being charged. Blanton was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison.</p><p></p><p>On May 22, 2002, Bobby Cherry was finally convicted of the murders of the four girls and received a life sentence. This conviction came almost 40 years after the bombing--even though authorities had evidence of Cherry's guilt and he openly talked about his involvement in the bombing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Inspired, post: 1452486, member: 4670"] Anyone who has the chance should go to the church, It's right outside Kelly Ingram park. there is a memorial in the church itself downstairs where the girls where playing before the church was bombed, there are pictures throughout history of all that has happened on those church steps. You can see the pictures of children protesting, and the police dogs, water hoses, and see things you won't be able to comprehend, things you didn't think humans were capable of. I got to see Cherry take the stand, that man showed no remorse at all for what he had done all those years ago. Racism is still very alive in Birmingaham , AL. Officials in the police department, the FBI, and other government agencies knew this was the bloody handiwork of the Ku Klux Klan. For decades, the KKK had carried out all kinds of terror against Black people in Birmingham. There were 40 bombings between the end of WW2 and 1963. This is not to say that the Panthers did not have extremists on their side either, but they never went so far as to bomb a church and kill innocent children. Four Klansmen were prime suspects: Robert Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash, and Thomas Blanton Jr. But none of them were arrested and charged, even though the FBI had more than enough evidence to implicate them. The case was officially closed in 1965 and wasn't re-opened until 1971. Chambliss was finally convicted of murder in 1977. Cash died in 1994 without ever being charged. Blanton was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. On May 22, 2002, Bobby Cherry was finally convicted of the murders of the four girls and received a life sentence. This conviction came almost 40 years after the bombing--even though authorities had evidence of Cherry's guilt and he openly talked about his involvement in the bombing. [/QUOTE]
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