On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, four girls were killed in a bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church.Denise McNair, 11; Cynthia Wesley, 14; Carole Robertson, 14; and Addie Mae Collins, 14, died from the explosion. Twenty-two others were injured.
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As Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, church that killed four Black girls in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke at at 16th Street Baptist Church, saying the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward. Dynamite exploded at 16th Street Baptist Church on the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, killing the four girls and shocking the nation. Hundreds of people, Black and white, filled the church for the remembrance. The church bell tolled four times as the names of the girls were read.