Little more than two weeks after Dr. King 's speech , Woods was at the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing minutes after the explosion resulted in the deaths of four girls . " They found shoes . Finally they found bodies . You could smell the human flesh " , he told '' The New York Times '' . While Ku Klux Klan member Robert Chambliss had been convicted in 1977 , a new investigation spurred by Rev. Woods ' efforts led to the conviction of Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry , two other Klan members , who were found guilty by state juries of all four murders and sentenced to life in prison
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Abraham Woods