cynthia wesley
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The 4 Girls Killed in the Birmingham Church Bombing Weren’t The Only Black Kids To Die That Day
Sixty years ago, two Black boys were killed in the aftermath of the KKK-planned 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
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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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'By Means Fair or Foul': America's Conspiracy to Assassinate Black Power
There is no such thing as “white people.” While the concept of race has always been an unscientific axiom, whiteness is the most mutable of the social constructs we call “race.” Whiteness is a fence with portable borders, defined more aptly by who is not inside. The Irish weren’t considered white. Neither were the Italians.…
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Klansman Who Bombed 16th Street Baptist Church Is Up for Parole
The Klansman who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four black girls in 1963, goes before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles next month for his first parole hearing, reports Alabama.com. Thomas E. Blanton Jr., who was convicted only in 2001, will go before the board Aug. 3. Addie Mae…