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Lessons from Birmingham: 60 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

4:40pm September 14, 2023

by Debbie Elliott

This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.

Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, pictured in 2013, argues that Ku Klux Klan members who attacked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were "inspired and motivated by then-Gov. [George] Wallace's racist rhetoric."

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Alabama Gov. Apologizes To Surviving '5th Girl' Of 1963 KKK Bombing

9:08pm September 30, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"There should be no question that Ms. Collins Rudolph and the families of those who perished ... suffered an egregious injustice that has yielded untold pain and suffering over the ensuing decades."

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd in Birmingham, Ala., in 1966. President Obama has designated an historic civil rights district in Birmingham as a national monument.

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Obama Honors Civil Rights Movement With New National Monuments

9:27pm January 12, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

As his administration ends, Obama has protected more historic, cultural and natural sites than any other president before him. The new sites are in South Carolina and in Birmingham and Anniston, Ala.