16th St Baptist Church Bombing- 1963

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Didn't hear anything in the news but this was 57 years ago today
:wow:
In memory of those 4 little girls' young lives lost at the hands of white racist-extremist terror.

Never forget

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

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Didn't hear anything in the news but this was 57 years ago today
:wow:
In memory of those 4 little girls' young lives lost at the hands of white racist-extremist terror.

Never forget

16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing_girls.jpg

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
 

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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.
 

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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.....
 

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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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