Alabama is marking the 60th anniversary of the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most serious terror acts of the Civil Rights Movement.
will mark the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous attacks during the Civil Rights Movement, the bombing of a church that killed four Black girls.
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 large, prominent church was targeted because it was a center of the African American community and the site of mass meetings during the Civil Rights Movement.The girls were gathered in a downstairs washroom to freshen up before Sunday services when the blast rocked the church.
The racist attack came eight months after then-Gov. George Wallace pledged,"segregation forever" during his inaugural address, and two weeks after theLisa McNair, Denise’s sister, said as the nation remembers the 60th anniversary, she wants people to remember what happened and think about how they can prevent it from happening again."People killed my sister just because of the color of her skin," McNair said."Don’t look at this anniversary as just another day.
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