Jane Addams Children\'s Honor Book NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book Kirkus Reviews Best Children\'s Book of the Year This nonfiction picture book focuses on Birmingham Sunday, a fateful day and significant part of the Civil Rights movement, and places it in historical context.
Rather than triggering paralyzing fear, the bombing was the definitive act that guaranteed passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation..
The church was the ideal target for segregationists, as it was the rallying place for Birmingham\'s African American community, Martin Luther King, Jr., using it as his headquarters when he was in town to further the cause of desegregation and equal rights.
On that Sunday morning, however, a blast in the 16th Street Baptist Church ripped through the exterior wall and claimed the lives of four girls.
Until September 15, 1963, these attacks had been threatening but not deadly.
Racial bombings were so frequent in Birmingham, Alabama that it became known as Bombingham.
Jane Addams Children\'s Honor Book NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book Kirkus Reviews Best Children\'s Book of the Year This nonfiction picture book focuses on Birmingham Sunday, a fateful day and significant part of the Civil Rights movement, and places it in historical context
