On this day in 1963 Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair were murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
More:
“Eulogy for the Martyred Children,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The King Center, Stanford University
“One small shoe: A legacy of the Birmingham church bombing,” Roy Peter Clark, CNN
“Congress honors Birmingham’s ‘four little girls,’” Hamil Harris, Washington Post
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Video excerpt from PBS series Eyes on the Prize,
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