Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Where four members of the Ku Klux Klan — Thomas Blanton Jr., Robert Chambliss, Herman Frank Cash, and Bobby Frank Cherry — planted 19 sticks of dynamite that detonated under the east steps of the church at 10:22 a.m. on Sunday, September 15, 1963, killing eleven-year-old Denise McNair and three fourteen-year-olds — Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley — as they were preparing for Sunday school. No federal prosecution was brought until 1977; the last conviction was secured in 2002.
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