childhood. coming home one day from my grandparents s house, a bomb we felt a bomb go off, heard apan explosion. and my father put us back in the car and said i m going to police. and she said they probably set the bomb. there were 50 unsolved bombings in birmingham alone. so many in fact the city itself earned a nickname, folks started calling it bombing-ham. but it was the one that happened here on a sunday morning in september of 1963 that awakened a country and changed the movement. my sister janet had this little black purse. and we was running and catching it like, you know, like we were playing ball. and we laughed and played all the way to church. now in her early 60s, sarah collins rudolph will never forget that fun filled september stroll to 16th street baptist church.