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KKK Baptist Church Bombing Victim Will Meet With President Biden
Thursday marks 59 years since Sarah Rudolph Collins lost her eye in the attack and has yet to be compensated by the state of Alabama.
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Maxine McNair, Last Living Parent of Child Killed In 1963 Church Dies At 93
“We are going to miss her laughter and her humor. The family would appreciate all of your thoughts and prayers.” her family said
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Survivor Requests an Apology and Compensation From the State of Alabama
One of the most tragic moments in Black American history happened in 1963 when a group of cowardly Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four Black girls who were no older than 14. It was also one of the most galvanizing moments of the civil rights movement.…
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The Last Bomber Convicted in Church Killing of 4 Black Girls in Birmingham, Alabama Has Died
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and one of three men convicted of murdering four Black girls in Alabama by bombing a church in 1963, has died in prison at 84 years old. Blanton was serving a life sentence and died of natural causes on Friday, according to a…
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An Open Letter to the White Boys Who Praised Alabama's Abortion Ban By Citing the Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
I don’t believe in hell. My lack of belief is not because of my religion or the absence thereof. I simply tend not to believe in things. A thing either is or it is not. My unbelief does not negate hell’s existence or make it so. But if there is a place populated by the…
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Chris McNair, Father of 16th Street Church Bombing Victim Denise McNair, Dies at 93
His eldest child, an 11-year-old girl named Denise McNair, was brutally taken from him and their family by a group of homegrown terrorists known as the Ku Klux Klan in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Ala.,’s 16th Street Baptist Church. Now, Chris McNair—father, husband and history-making political figure in his own right—has died at his…
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55 Years Ago, Someone Blamed a Bombing on a Racist Politician
Now, we know. When 19 sticks of dynamite planted by Klansmen exploded inside the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, killing 11-year old Carol Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, it was not the first time white supremacists had bombed a home or place of worship in…
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Donald Trump Conveniently Ignores Anniversary of One of America's Worst Acts of Terror
Three days before a national tragedy would shake the entire world, on September 8, 2001, George Bush issued a proclamation recognizing one of the darkest hours in American history. On September 15, 2013, Barack Obama’s White House sent out an official statement recognizing the same solemn day. George W. Bush’s Proclamation 7460 reads, in part:…
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16th Street Baptist Church Bomber Is Denied Parole
Thomas Blanton Jr., 86, the last living convicted bomber in the 1963 attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., asked for his freedom from a parole board Wednesday and was denied, CNN reports. Blanton was a member of the Ku Klux Klan when the church was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963. The tragedy, which…