Alabama NewsCenter — One man’s message following Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church bombing gets timely retelling in new book

By Bob Blalock

On the Sunday morning of Sept. 15, 1963, shortly before the start of church service, Ku Klux Klansmen’s dynamite ripped through Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church and a nation’s conscience. The terror attack killed four Black girls, maimed a fifth and injured more than 20 others.

The next day, Birmingham lawyer Charles “Chuck” Morgan Jr. condemned the murders and the white community that had allowed hundreds of bombings in the city – not a single one solved by police – during the civil rights era.

“And who is really guilty? Each of us. … Every person in this community who has in any way contributed during the past several years to the popularity of hatred, is at least as guilty, or more so, than the demented fool who threw that bomb,” Morgan said in a speech to the Young Men’s Business Club of Birmingham.

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