BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous attacks during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963.
On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by Ku Klux Klan members exploded at the church, killing the girls and shocking the nation.
The girls were gathered in a downstairs washroom to freshen up before Sunday services when the blast rocked the church.
The explosion killed 11-year-old Denise McNair, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, all 14.
McNair has asked city churches to join in tolling their bells Friday morning to mark the moment when the bomb went off.
Persons:
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Sarah Collins Rudolph, Addie Mae, George Wallace, Martin Luther King Jr, Lisa McNair, Denise’s, “, ” McNair, Robert Chambliss, Thomas Blanton, Bobby Frank Cherry, McNair
Organizations:
—, Civil Rights Movement, U.S, Supreme, Baptist Church, Ku Klux Klan, American
Locations:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, — Alabama, Birmingham, Washington