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.
On the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that took the lives for four young girls, the story of one of those families has been recounted in a book of letters by a sister, written to the sibling she never knew.
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