Bombingham: Day of Reckoning

Bombingham became the shameful moniker used by the national media for Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. In the span of three years more than fifty bombs exploded throughout the city in churches, homes and gathering places of the civil rights organizers. Fifty years later the Civil Rights district in downtown is now designated as a National Monument and attracts tourists from around the world. The city is recognized as a progressive, peaceful ...