16th Street Church Bombing — Part 27

101 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Sep 16, 1963 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 98 pages OCR'd

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BH 157-352 zone area, Dr. BOYKIN was granted a building permit and began construction of his home. BOYKIN could only state that the white people in that neighborhood who seemed to be the most infuriated over his building a home there were CLARENCE HENDERSON t= J and CHARLES PIERSON, a grocer, both of whom have since died. April 22, 1950: On April 23, 1950, the Sunday Edition of"The Birmingham News" contained a front-page article relating facts of a dynamite explosion which had occurred on the previous evening at 1100 Center Street and extensively damaged a home belonging to B. W. HENDERSON. This article stated that this had been the second time in six months this house had been bombed. It referred to an instance occurring on October 13, 1949, in which HENDERSON had had a Qynamite charge exploded in his front yard and a similar charge exploded in the front yard of the house next door. This article also stated that several months prior to the 10/13/49 dynamiting, he had discovered several sticks of dynamite in his yard with the fuses burned out, which dynamite was at that time surrendered to the Birmingham Police Department for examination. This house was occupied at the time of the bombing by a Negro woman and her five-year-old daughter who lived in a room upstairs at the rear and a Negro man named ROY TERRY, who lived downstairs at the rear. No one was injured by this explosion. This article also related that the Rev. MILTON CURRY, who had previously rented living quarters from HENDERSON in this house, had been personally requested by EUGENE "BULL" CONNOR and J. W. MORGAN (City Commissioners at that time) to move out of the house, but he declined on the grounds that he had paid his rent in good faith. December 4i, 1950: There have been several references made in newspaper accounts of other bombings to a bombing allegedly occurring ‘ on this date at the home of a man named MONK at 950 Center Street, North. These articles relate that Mr. and Mrs. MONK had pre- viously filed a zoning suit against the City of Birmingham. ‘It should be noted that no individual account of this bombing was found in either the Birmingham Office files or the morgues of the Birmingham newspapers. E COVER PAGE

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BH 157-352

zone area, Dr. BOYKIN was granted a building permit and began

construction of his home. BOYKIN could only state that the

white people in that neighborhood who seemed to be the most

infuriated over his building a home there were CLARENCE HENDERSON
t= J

and CHARLES PIERSON, a grocer, both of whom have since died.

April 22, 1950:
On April 23, 1950, the Sunday Edition of"The Birmingham

News" contained a front-page article relating facts of a dynamite

explosion which had occurred on the previous evening at 1100

Center Street and extensively damaged a home belonging to B. W.

HENDERSON. This article stated that this had been the second

time in six months this house had been bombed. It referred to

an instance occurring on October 13, 1949, in which HENDERSON

had had a Qynamite charge exploded in his front yard and a

similar charge exploded in the front yard of the house next

door. This article also stated that several months prior to

the 10/13/49 dynamiting, he had discovered several sticks of

dynamite in his yard with the fuses burned out, which dynamite

was at that time surrendered to the Birmingham Police Department

for examination. This house was occupied at the time of the

bombing by a Negro woman and her five-year-old daughter who

lived in a room upstairs at the rear and a Negro man named ROY

TERRY, who lived downstairs at the rear. No one was injured

by this explosion. This article also related that the Rev.

MILTON CURRY, who had previously rented living quarters from

HENDERSON in this house, had been personally requested by

EUGENE "BULL" CONNOR and J. W. MORGAN (City Commissioners at

that time) to move out of the house, but he declined on the

grounds that he had paid his rent in good faith.

December 4i, 1950:

There have been several references made in newspaper
accounts of other bombings to a bombing allegedly occurring ‘
on this date at the home of a man named MONK at 950 Center Street,
North. These articles relate that Mr. and Mrs. MONK had pre-
viously filed a zoning suit against the City of Birmingham.

‘It should be noted that no individual account of this bombing

was found in either the Birmingham Office files or the morgues
of the Birmingham newspapers.

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COVER PAGE