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four young black girls, denise mcnair, carol robertson, addie may collins, and synthcynthia w were killed in the blast. 14 others were injured that day in the domestic terror attack by klan members furious over gains in civil rights for black americans. the bombing sparked riots where two more black teenagers died. it helped to galvanize the ongoing civil rights movement. even though suspects emerged in 1965 it took more than a decade for even one of the bombers to be brought to justice in 1977. it was more than 20 years later that then u.s. attorney and former senator doug jones brought charges against two more of the klansmen. they were convicted in 2001 and 2002. the last bomber dying in prison just in the summer of last year. the past isn t really past. there are millions of americans who can still remember when black and white citizens were legally segregated, a time when black americans faced every conceivable obstacle to voting.