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Dynamite blast kills four black girls in Birmingham, Alabama
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A bomb blast at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church kills 11 year-old Denise McNair, and 14 year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robinson, and Cynthia Wesley.
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Major Events
September 5, 1963
King attends Dorchester planning meeting
September 16, 1963
King urges nonviolence repeatedy in Birmingham
September 17, 1963
King blames Wallace in interview for violence
September 18, 1963
King delivers “Eulogy for the Martyred Children”
September 29, 1963
White students withdraw rather than integrate high school
September 30, 1963
King backs down from immediate demonstrations in Birmingham
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