Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone
1963
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Birmingham, Alabama
5th September, 1963
A bomb explodes on Sunday morning services, in Birmingham, Alabama, tragically killing four young school girls. This church was commonly used as a meeting place for civil rights leaders like MLK. A member of the Ku Klux Klan was charged with murder and burying the bombs.
The song Mississippi Goddam was Simones response to the racially motivated murders of Emmett Till and Medgars Evers in Mississippi as well as the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.