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Bookmark or Share- Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, & Cynthia WesleyAddie Mae Collins, 14, and Denise McNair, 11, were in the choir. Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, both 14, had been chosen to serve as ushers. Only a few feet away, beneath a stone staircase along the outside wall of the church, a dynamite bomb had been planted eight hours earlier.
- Four Black schoolgirls killed in Birmingham church bombingSeptember | 15. On September 15, 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins (14...
- Birmingham church bombing survivor reflects on 60th anniversary of ...Burton Mcneely/Getty Images. Sixty years after the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, Sarah Collins Rudolph said she still feels the scars. Rudolph, who was 12 at the time, was one of the 22 people injured in the blast that claimed the life of her sister, Addie Mae, 14, and three other girls.
- 60 years after 4 little girls were killed in a KKK attack on the 16th ...The Birmingham News/AP. Her sister was the 5th girl in the restroom. The four girls who died weren’t alone in the basement that bloody Sunday. Addie Mae’s sister, 12-year-old Sarah, was also...
- Addie Mae Collins - Murder, Alabama & Death - BiographyAddie Mae Collins was a 14-year-old murder victim whose 1963 death focused public attention on racial violence in the South. Updated: Sep 4, 2019. Photo: AP Photo. (1949-1963) Who Was Addie...
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