Bombingham
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Bombingham is a nickname for Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement due to the 50 dynamite explosions that occurred in the city between 1947 and 1965. The bombings were initially used against African Americans attempting to move into neighborhoods with entirely white residents. Later, the bombings were used against anyone working towards racial desegregation in the city.[1] One neighborhood within Birmingham experienced so many bombings it developed the nickname of Dynamite Hill.[2]
Bombings
- 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963
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- Attacks on churches
- Explosions in the United States
- History of African-American civil rights
- History of Alabama
- History of Birmingham, Alabama
- Improvised explosive device bombings in the United States
- Ku Klux Klan crimes in Alabama
- Racially motivated violence against African Americans
- Terrorist incidents in the United States