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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carol Robertson & Cynthia Wesley 
Robert Chambliss 
On September 24, 1977, Ku Klux Klan Member, Robert Edward Chambliss (Also Known As "Dynamite Bob"), Was Indicted And Charged With Murder For The 1963 16TH Street Baptist Church Bombing, In Birmingham, Alabama.
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carol Robertson And Cynthia Wesley Were The Four Young Black Girls Killed When The Church Exploded.
A Witness Identified Robert Chambliss As The Man Who Placed The Bomb Under The Church Steps On September 17, 1963. He Was Arrested And Charged With Murder And For Being In Possession Of 122 Sticks Of Dynamite Without A Permit. On October 8, 1963, He Was Found Not Guilty Of Murder, But Received A $100 Fine And Six Month Jail Sentence For The Dynamite Charge.
More Than A Decade Later, Alabama Attorney General, Bill Baxley, Re-Opened The Case And In November, 1977, Chambliss Was Re-Tried. At Age 73. He Was Found Guilty And Sentenced To Life In Prison. Chambliss Died In An Alabama Prison On October 29, 1985.
In 2000, It Was Announced That Three Other Men Had Acted With Chambliss, In 1963. One Of The Men Was Dead, But Two Others Were Arrested. In May 2002, 71 Year-Old, Bobby Cherry, Was Convicted Of Murder In The 16TH Street Baptist Church Bombing.
" In Order For Black History To Live, We Must Continue To Breathe Life Into it." -- Hubert Gaddy, Jr.
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Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 12:42AM
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Gaddy it is ironic that I am reading this post a few hours after learning while watching the Rachael Maddow program on MSNBC about this century's first body in death hanging from a noose on a tree in the state of Kentucky...
The body was a White man. As he was a census taker the FBI is treating this as someone has killed a federal agent and had keep this covered-up away from the public at large since 9-12-09. The famous day of theright-winger's march on Washington to take this country out of the hands of a Black president and return it back to the day...JIM CROW...the words FED were written on this man...
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