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1921 May 31 Black Wall Street Church, Bombed, Tulsa Oklahoma
1951–1960 •
1955 October 5 Burning of St. James AME Church,
Lake City, South Carolina •
1956 December 25 Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed. •
1957 April 28 At Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bessemer, Alabama, dynamite exploded at the rear of the church during an evening service. •
1958 June 29 Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed again. This time, guards removed the bombs to a ditch; the blast blew out the windows, however.
1961–1970 •
1962 January 16 New Bethel Baptist Church, St Luke's African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Triumph Church Kingdom of God and Christ, all three in Birmingham, Alabama, were fire-bombed. •
1962 September 25 St. Matthew's Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, was burned. "It is the fifth church to burn in a month." •
1962 December 14 At Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a third bomb blew out the church windows. •
1963 August 10 St. James United Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, was destroyed by a "gasoline fire bomb." •
1964 July 31 Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Rankin County, Mississippi, 15 miles east of Jackson, burned shortly before midnight. At least 15 churches were damaged or destroyed by fire between the statewide civil rights drive opening in mid-June and this day.
1971–1980 •
1972 (exact date unknown) Cartersville Baptist Church, in Reston, Virginia, was burned, causing the main church to fall into the basement. •
1974 June 30 At
Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta, Georgia,
Alberta Williams King, mother of
Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin were killed by a man who had determined that "black ministers were a menace to black people." A third churchgoer was wounded. •
1977 December 18 Zoah Methodist Church, Mulberry Baptist in Wilkes County, Georgia; Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Antioch CME in Lincoln County, Georgia. Three teens were found guilty in the burning of 4 black churches in Wilkes and Lincoln counties. •
1979 December 16 Second Wilson Church of Chester, South Carolina, a meeting place for civil rights activists, was gutted by fire.
1981–1990 1991–2000 More than 30 black churches were burned in an 18-month period in 1995 and 1996, leading Congress to pass the
Church Arson Prevention Act. •
1995 January 13 Johnson Grove Baptist Church in Bells, Tennessee, was burned. •
1995 January 13 Macedonia Baptist Church in Denmark, Tennessee, was burned. •
1995 January 31 Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Hardeman County, Tennessee, was burned. •
1995 June 21 Outside of Manning, South Carolina, four men affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan worked together to burn down
Macedonia Baptist Church and
Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church of Greeleyville, both majority black churches. Criminal convictions were obtained. In a 1998 civil suit, Grand Dragon Horace King and four other Klansmen, together with Klan organisations, were sued for $37.8 million for their roles, an amount reduced on appeal. •
1995 August 15 St. John Baptist Church in Lexington County, South Carolina, was burned and an arrest was made. •
1995 October 31 Mount Pisgah Baptist Church of Raeford, North Carolina, was burned. •
1995 December 22 Mount Zion Baptist Church of Boligee, Alabama, was burned. •
1995 December 30 Salem Baptist Church in Gibson County, Tennessee, was burned. •
1996 January 6 Ohovah African Methodist Episcopal Church of Orrum, North Carolina, was burned and an arrest was made. •
1996 January 8 Inner City Church of Knoxville, Tennessee, was burned. •
1996 January 11 Little Zion Baptist Church and Mount Zoar Baptist Church of Green County, Alabama, were both burned on the same day. •
1996 February 1 Cypress Grove Baptist Church, St. Paul's Free Baptist Church, and Thomas Chapel Benevolent Society of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were all burned on the same day. •
1996 February 1 Sweet Home Baptist Church in Baker, Louisiana, was burned. •
1996 February 21 Glorious Church of God in Christ of Richmond, Virginia, was burned. •
1996 February 28 New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, Alabama, was burned and an arrest was made. •
1996 March 5 St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Hatley, Mississippi, was burned. •
1996 March 20 New Mount Zion Baptist Church in Ruleville, Mississippi, was burned. •
1996 March 27 Gay's Hill Baptist Church of Millen, Georgia, was burned. •
1996 March 30 El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church of Satartia, Mississippi, was burned and an arrest was made. •
1996 March 31 Butler Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Orangeburg, South Carolina, was burned. •
1996 April 11 St. Charles Baptist Church in Paincourtville, Louisiana, was burned. •
1996 April 13 Rosemary Baptist Church in Barnwell, South Carolina, was burned. •
1996 April 26 Effingham Baptist Church in Effingham, South Carolina, was burned. •
1996 May 14 Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Tigrett, Tennessee, was burned. •
1996 May 23 Mount Tabor Baptist Church in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina, was burned. •
1996 May 24 Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Lumberton, North Carolina, was burned. •
1996 June 3 Rising Star Baptist Church in Greensboro, Alabama, was burned. •
1996 June 7 Matthews Murkland Presbyterian Church sanctuary in Charlotte, North Carolina, was burned and an arrest was made. •
1996 June 9 New Light House of Prayer and The Church of the Living God, both of Greenville, Texas, were burned on the same day. •
1996 June 12 Evangelist Temple on Marianna, Florida, was burned. •
1996 June 13 First Missionary Baptist Church of Enid, Oklahoma, was burned and an arrest was made. •
1996 June 17 Hills Chapel Baptist Church, Rocky Point, North Carolina, is burned. •
1996 June 17 Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church and Central Grove Missionary Baptist Church, both of Kossuth, Mississippi, were burned on the same day. •
1996 June 20 Immanuel Christian Fellowship of Portland, Oregon, was burned. •
1996 June 24 New Birth Temple Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, was burned. ==21st century==