The 16th Street Baptist Church in this city was bombed by The Cahaba Boys, a KKK offshoot, in 1963, killing four African-American girls.
This city saw the 1948 convention of the States' Rights Party, aka the Dixiecrats, which nominated Strom Thurmond for president. This city is home to the second-tallest metal statue in the US, a depiction of Vulcan celebrating this city's status as an iron-production center and "Pittsburgh of the South." The 16th Street Baptist Church in this city was bombed by The Cahaba Boys, a KKK offshoot, in 1963, killing four African-American girls. A newspaper editorial titled "A Call for Unity" prompted a response by a civil rights leader imprisoned in this city. For 10 points, what Alabama city's jail was the site of the writing of a Martin Luther King letter?
This city saw the 1948 convention of the States' Rights Party, aka the Dixiecrats, which nominated Strom Thurmond for president.
{Birmingham}, Alabama