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'''Rev. John H. Cross Jr.''' ([[January 27]], [[1925]] – [[November 15]], [[2007]]) was an [[United States|American]] pastor and [[Civil Rights]] activist. He was best known as the pastor of the [[16th Street Baptist Church]], an [[African American]] [[Baptist]] congegation in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], at the time of church's [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing|racially motivated bombing]] in [[1963]]. <ref name=lat> {{cite news |first=Matt |last=Schudel|title= The Rev. John H. Cross Jr., 82; pastor of church bombed in 1963 |url=http://www.latimeswashingtonpost.com/newswp-dyn/printeditioncontent/californiaarticle/la-me-cross19nov19,1,42475692007/11/17/AR2007111701404.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-californiahtml|work= [[Washington Post]] |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2007-11-1918|accessdate=2007-12-01}}</ref><ref name=ajc> {{cite news |first=Ernie|last=Suggs|title= Rev. John H. Cross Jr.; Birmingham church was bombed |url=http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/obits/stories/2007/11/16/cross_1117.html |work= [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |publisher= |date=2007-11-17|accessdate=2007-12-01}}</ref> 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 United States|racial segregation]] in [[Southern United States|The South]] into the national spotlight.<ref name=ajc/> Cross spent much of the rest of his life working for racial reconciliation in the South.<ref name=ajc/>
==Early life==
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