The Birmingham church bombing occurred on September 15, 1963, when a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama a church with a predominantly Black congregation that also served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed and many other people injured.
Sarah Collins Rudolph thinks back to 1963 and remembers the moment she couldn’t see anything – or hear what she desperately wanted: her sister Addie Mae’s voice.
United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African American woman to sit on the highest court in the nation, will speak at an event in Alabama commemorating the 60th anniversary of when a church was bombed, killing four children.
United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African American woman to sit on the highest court in the nation, will speak at an event in Alabama commemorating the 60th anniversary of when a church was bombed, killing four children.