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The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Excerpts from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records from 1972 regarding the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Excerpts from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records from 1972 regarding the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Citation Information: United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, excerpts from “Sixteenth (16th) Street Church Bombing,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/ba32ca7b5e1122a4e493354f22eadb41.

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Courtesy of United States Federal Bureau of Investigation via Digital Library of Georgia.

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Excerpts from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records from 1972 regarding the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

A newsclip of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presenting the four demands of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, May 5, 1963.

A newsclip from May 8, 1963 in which President John F. Kennedy expresses satisfaction with the resolution of racial conflicts in Birmingham.

Assorted newspaper clippings on school segregation from the 1950s and 1960s.

Excerpts from the legal complaint in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1951.

An excerpt from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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