John Cross Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Cross Jr.
American activist and pastor
Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1925
Date of Death: 15-Nov-2007
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
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.
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