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Today in Labor History September 15, 1963: Four members of the local KKK planted 19 sticks of dynamite in the Sixteenth Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. As a result, 4 young African-American girls died: Denise McNair, 11, and Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, all 14. The outrage helped mobilize support for the civil rights movement. By 1965, the FBI knew who the perpetrators were. However, no prosecutions occurred until 1977. Others weren’t convicted until 2001-2002.