Johnny Robinson

Death by Force

On September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, 16-year-old Johnny Robinson was fatally shot by police officer Jack Parker amid the unrest following the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Earlier that day, a Ku Klux Klan member had planted a bomb at the church, resulting in the deaths of four African American girls and injuring 22 others. The bombing incited widespread civil unrest in the city.

In the aftermath, Robinson and his friends were near a gas station when a group of white yout ...Read More

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