BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four Black girls in Birmingham during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. A service will be held Friday morning at the church as part of a weeklong commemoration of Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and […]
This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.