16th St Baptist Church Bombing- 1963

[Rusty$hackleford]

Didn't hear anything in the news but this was 57 years ago today

In memory of those 4 little girls' young lives lost at the hands of white racist-extremist terror.

Never forget

The four girls killed in the bombing (clockwise from top left): Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair

 

[LiIZaneFan1978]

When we remember these tragedies we should also be reminded of the people who did it and where their children and grandchildren etc live now. Just to tell the whole story I mean.

 

[keond]

Didn't hear anything in the news but this was 57 years ago today

In memory of those 4 little girls' young lives lost at the hands of white racist-extremist terror.

Never forget

The four girls killed in the bombing (clockwise from top left): Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair

4 little Girls was the most heart wrenching documentary i ever seen. I watched it once when it came out and never again

RIP

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Next level evil to blow a church up

 

[TRUEST]

When we remember these tragedies we should also be reminded of the people who did it and where their children and grandchildren etc live now. Just to tell the whole story I mean.

I totally agree. Story wouldn’t be complete without it.

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

Next level evil to blow a church up

Sickening
And I say that as an individual whos had his qualms with God, or perhaps better said, the form of God and religion I was taught and grew up with (and still have some figuring out yet to do).
But attacking a church/mosque/temple etc. , unthinkably reprehensible.

 

[agpxknt]

I wonder what MLK had to say on this matter

 

[the artist known az]

4 little Girls was the most heart wrenching documentary i ever seen. I watched it once when it came out and never again

RIP

It stuck with me when one of them had a piece of rubble imprinted on her forehead

 

[keond]

It stuck with me when one of them had a piece of rubble imprinted on her forehead

Yea. the whole thing was sad. The interviews with the families got me. My mom was a bit younger than these girls but i saw her in them. She used to love to go to church and hang out with her friends in Sunday school. And the fact that them cacs got away with it for so many years. This country is pure evil.....

 

[keond]

I wonder what MLK had to say on this matter

He gave the eulogy

 

[DerrtySouthpaw]

My mom went to church with Denise McNair’s sister. They family rich as fukk. Had an art gallery/event room on 6th ave in Birmingham thats real popular. Or was

edit: RIP OG Chris mcnair

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

Four Girls Forever Lost: 57 years ago, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing awakened nation to deadly consequences of hate
September 15, 2020



Tafeni English
Civil Rights Memorial Center Director



Addie Mae Collins was an outgoing, artistic girl who – as a Black teenager in 1963 – happily went door to door in the white neighborhoods of Birmingham, Alabama, to sell aprons and potholders that her mother had stitched together to make ends meet.

Denise McNair performed in plays, dance routines and poetry readings to raise money for muscular dystrophy research. She befriended Condoleezza Rice, a fellow elementary school student who later became U.S. secretary of state.

Carole Robertson was a good student who loved reading and dancing. She sang in her elementary school chorus, played the clarinet, and was a member of Jack and Jill of America, a civic-minded youth and family organization.

Cynthia Wesley was raised by a single mother but stayed with her adoptive parents so she could attend a better school, where she excelled in math, reading and band.

The lives of all four girls intertwined and tragically ended at 10:21 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, when a bomb planted by Klansmen outside the ladies’ lounge at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham exploded, instantly killing them and injuring 20 others.

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Four Girls Forever Lost: 57 years ago, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing awakened nation to deadly consequences of hate

 

[Boujee Bonita Braxton]

I just rewatched the 4 Little Girls Documentary a few weeks ago. It still hits hard.

 

[lamont614]

I just rewatched the 4 Little Girls Documentary a few weeks ago. It still hits hard.

is this on hbo max

 

[skylove4]

He gave the eulogy

That look on his face walking up the steps to eulogize four innocent babies is that of true leader but just sick of this shyt. I forget how young he was sometimes