When Sarah Collins Rudolph was 12 years old, she was getting ready for the Sunday service in the basement of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Down there also were her sister, 14-year-old Addie Mae Collins, and their friends Denise McNair, Carole Roberts both 14 and Cynthia Wesley, 11.
Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, will be visiting Columbus on Jan. 9 to share her story at Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church.