was so emotionally difficult for her and yet important at the same time. because being here for her was showing her love and respect to those four girls who were killed. >> sarah, thank you. that bombing was not just a game changer in the civil rights movement. it also had a tremendous impact on children living there at the time. including former secretary of state condoleezza rice. >> it was like living in a parallel world. we didn't interact with whites. i didn't have white friends. >> condoleezza rice grew up in black and white birmingham. her city was the capital of an old segregated south fighting to stay alive. >> pie parents couldn't take me to have a hamburger at the woolworth's lunch counters but they had me convinced i could be president of the united states if i wanted to be. >> in an interview on politics nation, the former secretary of state recalled birmingham of her