The attacks of Birmingham Sunday were carried out under the white supremacist ideology, considering the victims (African-American children) as inferior beings. It took place in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963.
The attack killed four girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair) and wounded twenty-two others.
It was carried out by four Ku Klux Klan members (Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss and Bobby Frank Cherry). The assasins planted bombs on the east side of the church.
The attack marked a turning point in the African-American civil rights movement and helped push through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
