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 forced racial integration. The Confederate Underground, a resistance group, 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 this attack.
- May 26, 1968 - Bombing of Temple Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi)
