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Jan 27, 1925 Died on 15 Nov 2007 (aged 82)
American activist and pastor
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About John Cross Jr.
- John H.
- Cross Jr.
- (January 27, 1925 – November 15, 2007) was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist.
- He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of church's racially motivated bombing in 1963.
- The bombing, which ripped through the church and killed four young girls, became a rallying cry for the Civil Rights Movement and propelled the problems of racial segregation in The South into the national spotlight.
- Cross spent much of the rest of his life working for racial reconciliation in the South.
