Four months after the Birmingham campaign settlement , someone bombed the house of NAACP attorney Arthur Shores , injuring his wife in the attack . On September 15 , 1963 , Birmingham again earned international attention when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church on a Sunday morning and killed four young girls . FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe was hired to infiltrate the KKK and monitor their activities and plans . Rowe was involved , along with the Birmingham Police , with the KKK attacks on the Freedom Riders , led by Fred Shuttlesworth , in Anniston , Alabama on May 14 , 1961 . In addition , Rowe and several other Klansmen also partook in the killing of Civil Rights activist Viola Liuzzo on March 25 , 1965 , in Lowndes County , Georgia after the Selma to Montgomery march
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