FBIColdCase

A real-life "Cold Case" FBI file on the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing by KKK members...

(relevant to student birth-years): In 2002, May 22, Tuesday, in Birmingham, Thomas Blanton Jr. guilty of first-degree murder four times over for the 1963 bombing of a black church. In 2001, in Birmingham, Bobby Frank Cherry found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

Cohen, Adam. Back to `Bombingham.' Time. 7/21/1997, Vol. 150 Issue 3, p37. 2/3p. 2 Black & White Photos. Abstract: Reports that the US FBI has reopened the case of the 9/15/63 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1997 due to new evidence received in 1996. Details of the bombing; The belief that Chambliss had several accomplices; The place that the bombing holds in the history of civil rights.

In 1994, a fourth suspect, Herman Cash, died without being charged. In 1977, Robert Chambliss, known as "Dynamite Bob," was convicted of murder and later died in prison.

Angela Davis, formerly of Dynamite Hill, now world-renowned author, activist and scholar, professor emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz speaking at an event organized by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law. []