Bombingham: The KKK Terror Campaign America Forgot Between 1947 and 1965, the Ku Klux Klan launched a systematic bombing campaign against Black residents in Birmingham, Alabama. Over 50 dynamite explosions targeted families attempting to integrate neighborhoods and participate in civil rights activities. From Reverend Milton Curry's three targeted bombings to the 1963 destruction of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls—Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, a