Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls

Alabama on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous attacks during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation's highest court, will give the keynote address at the remembrance Friday morning at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The large, prominent church was targeted because it was a center of the African American community and the site of mass meetings during the Civil Rights Movement.

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