Research Proposal: Desegregation and Birmingham Church Bombing

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Research Topic Proposal: Desegregation and Birmingham church bombing
The 16th Street Birmingham Baptist Church bombing highlighted the goring tensions among segregationists and integrationists in the American south. As the Civil Rights movement grew more prominent there was unease among segregationists. The bombing killed four black girls, but some of the perpetrators are still at large decades later.
There is a need to understand the role of the African Church in the lives of African Americans as a place of worship and a gathering point for demonstrators who agitated for end to racial discrimination. The response of public officials to the bombing especially the police is an issue that highlights how the power structures subverted, limited or enhanced the struggle for racial equality.
The tactic of using violence against African Americans and Whites who ...