1963 unrest following the targeted bombings of Civil Rights leaders in Birmingham, AL, US
Birmingham riot of 1963
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Location
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Date
May 11, 1963
Perpetrators
Ku Klux Klan (alleged)
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Birmingham campaign
Prelude
Bombingham
Events
Birmingham riot of 1963
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Shooting of Johnny Robinson
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Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
State of Alabama
Alabama Pupil Placement Law
NAACP v. Patterson
NAACP v. Alabama
United States v. Alabama
Original Freedom Rides
George Wallace's Inaugural Address
United States v. Wallace
Hamilton v. Alabama
City of Birmingham
Bombingham
Birmingham bus boycott
First Bethel Baptist Church bombing
Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham Board of Education
Birmingham sit-ins
Armstrong v. Birmingham Board of Education
Anniston bus bombing
Birmingham bus attack
Gober v. City of Birmingham
Birmingham campaign
Children's Crusade
Gaston Motel and King residence bombings
Birmingham riot of 1963
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Shooting of Johnny Robinson
Murder of Virgil Lamar Ware
Katzenbach v. McClung
Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
City of Montgomery
Montgomery bus boycott
Browder v. Gayle
Robert Graetz residence bombing
Martin Luther King Jr. residence bombing
Gilmore v. City of Montgomery
Montgomery sit-ins
Connecticut Freedom Ride
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Selma to Montgomery marches
U.S. v. Montgomery County Board of Ed.
Smith v. Young Men's Christian Association
Gilmore v. City of Montgomery
City of Selma
Selma to Montgomery marches
Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson
Murder of James Reeb
Murder of Viola Liuzzo
City of Tuscaloosa
Lucy v. Adams
University of Alabama desegregation crisis
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Bloody Tuesday
City of Tuskegee
Tuskegee merchant boycott
Alabama Act 140
Tuskegee sit-ins
Gomillion v. Lightfoot
Tuskegee High School desegregation crisis
Murder of Sammy Younge Jr.
Lee v. Macon County Board of Education
Other localities
Murder of Willie Edwards
Murder of William Lewis Moore
Murder of Willie Brewster
Murder of Jonathan Daniels
The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought police throughout the downtown area.
The places bombed were the parsonage of Rev. A. D. King, brother of Martin Luther King Jr., and a motel owned by A. G. Gaston, where King and others organizing the campaign had stayed. It is believed that the bombings were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan, in cooperation with Birmingham police. Civil rights protesters were frustrated with local police complicity with the perpetrators of the bombings, and grew frustrated at the non-violence strategy directed by King. Initially starting as a protest, violence escalated following local police intervention. The federal government intervened with federal troops for the first time to control violence during a largely African-American riot. It was also a rare instance of domestic military deployment independent of enforcing a court injunction, an action which was considered controversial by Governor George Wallace and other Alabama whites. The African-American response was a pivotal event that contributed to President Kennedy's decision to propose a major civil rights bill. It was ultimately passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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