List of Southern Resistance Bombings
Below is a list of southern resistance bombings which occurred mainly in The South in the 1950s and 1960s in protest to racial integration. The Confederate Underground claimed responsibility for several of these bombings. An informant told the Birmingham, Alabama police, attorney J.B. Stoner was the head of this group.[1]
- March 16, 1958 - bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Nashville[2]
- April 28, 1958 - attempted bombing of Jewish Synagogue (Birmingham, Alabama)[3]
- June 29, 1958 - Bethel Baptist Church bombing (Birmingham, Alabama) In 1980 J. B. Stoner was tried, found guilty of the bombing and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He was released in 1986.
- October 5, 1958 - Clinton, Tennessee school bombing
- October 12, 1958 - Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple (Atlanta, Georgia)
- October 14, 1958 - Bombing of the Anshai Emeth Temple (Peoria, Illinois)[4]
- September 15, 1963 - 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. Four black girls are killed. In 1977 Klansman Robert Chambliss is convicted of these murders.
- May 26, 1968 - Bombing of Temple Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi)
