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January 1963

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Oppression
White Homeowners Bomb Black Families Moving into White Neighborhoods

Black families attempting to move into white neighborhoods in Birmingham, Chicago, and Detroit faced mob violence, bombings, and arson. Birmingham's pattern was so frequent the city earned the nickname 'Bombingham.' The FBI rarely investigated these attacks as civil rights violations.

Events

  1. 1963
    White Homeowners Bomb Black Families Moving into White Neighborhoods

    Black families attempting to move into white neighborhoods in Birmingham, Chicago, and Detroit faced mob violence, bombings, and arson. Birmingham's pattern was so frequent the city earned the nickname 'Bombingham.' The FBI rarely investigated these attacks as civil rights violations.

  2. 1963
    White Homeowners Bomb and Attack Black Families Moving into White Neighborhoods

    Throughout the early 1960s, Black families attempting to move into previously all-white neighborhoods in cities including Birmingham, Chicago, and Detroit faced mob violence, bombings, and arson. Birmingham's pattern of bombings in transitional neighborhoods was so frequent the city earned the nickname 'Bombingham.' The FBI rarely investigated these attacks as civil rights violations.

  3. January 14, 1963
    "Segregation forever"

    Alabama Governor George Wallace pledges eternal segregation in his inaugural address.