As Kevin Kruse reminds us, on this day in 1963, white racial terrorists bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist church in Birmingham, killing four Black girls, fourteen-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson, and eleven-year-old Carol Denise McNair.
This also happened on the same day, he reminds us:
#Birmingham #Alabama #bombing #racism #violence
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https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/whos-really-guilty
Even as people gathered to pull the girls' bodies from the rubble white teens with a Confederate flag and a sign saying "Go Back to Africa" stood taunting those moving the rubble. Black teens nearby threw rocks at the white teens. Police on the scene then turned against the Black teens — not the white ones — and shot one of them in the back.
#Birmingham #Alabama #bombing #racism #violence
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