Church bells just tolled in Birmingham, AL to mark the day 60 years ago when four black girls were killed by a bomb that ripped through 16th Street Baptist Church, the savage response of the KKK to a court ruling that black children had the right to enter white schools - to be human and equal. At a...
Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, who for Doug Jonesthat hope" of MLK,'s 60 years ago when he vowed the girls "did not die in vain." Jackson said she came to Birmingham "to commemorate and to mourn, to honor and to warn.” Citing "the toll that was paid to secure the blessings of liberty for African Americans," she argued "the work of our time is maintaining that hard-won freedom.
Denise McNair, killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, with her favorite Chatty Cathy doll.Sarah Collins Rudolph, 12-year-old sister of victim Addie Mae Collins, survived but lost her eyesightAbby Zimet has written CD's Further column since 2008. A longtime, award-winning journalist, she moved to the Maine woods in the early 70s, where she spent a dozen years building a house, hauling water and writing before moving to Portland.
Church bells just tolled in Birmingham, AL to mark the day 60 years ago when four black girls were killed by a bomb that ripped through 16th Street Baptist Church, the savage response of the KKK to a court ruling that black children had the right to enter white schools - to be human and equal. At a memorial,Jackson enjoined us to own "the whole truth about our past...even the darkest , and vow never to repeat them.
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