CORE Protests Birmingham Bombings, 1963
Entitled: "Congress of Racial Equality conducts march in memory of Negro youngsters killed in Birmingham bombings, All Souls Church, 16th Street, Washington, " In the 1950s and 1960s Birmingham received national and international attention as a center of the civil rights struggle for African-Americans. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed when 19 sticks of dynamite were planted outside the basement of the church on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls and injured 22 others, marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP. Though still existent, CORE has been much less influential since the end of the 1955-68 civil rights movement. Photographed by Thomas O'Halloran, September 22, 1963.
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