Honoring Black Ancestors : "Four Little Black Girls"

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September 15, 1963

16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama


R.I.P.

Addie Mae Collins: born April 18, 1949

Carol Denise McNair: born September 17, 1951

Carole Rosamond Robertson: born April 24, 1949

Cynthia Diane Wesley was born April 30, 1949

 

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50 Years Later: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

by Lottie L. Joiner Sep 15, 2013 9:58 AM EDT

Fifty years ago, four little girls were tragically killed during a bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Birmingham native Carolyn McKinstry remembers that day.


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Unidentified mourners, who overflowed the church, stand across the street during funeral services for 14-year-old Carol Robertson, Sept. 17, 1963, Birmingham, Ala. The girl was one of four young African Americans killed in a bomb blast the previous Sunday. (AP)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-sixteenth-street-baptist-church-bombing.html

 

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