Birmingham Church Bombing

1963 Birmingham church bomb survivor still waiting for compensation from Alabama

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Maxine McNair, last living parent of child killed in 1963 bombing, dies

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Alabama governor apologizes to Sarah Collins Rudolph, ‘fifth girl’ in 1963 bombing

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Thomas Blanton, 1963 KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham, dies

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls, died Friday in prison.
/ June 28, 2020
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

The Alabama Senate race is about the future of the South

The epic U.S. Senate contest between Roy Moore and Doug Jones is far more than a local race
/ December 12, 2017
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

‘4 Little Girls’ remembered: The price of freedom after 50 years

ESSAY – The anniversary of the brutal murder of four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on the morning of September 15, forces us to remember that the civil rights movement wasn’t easy or inevitable…
/ September 15, 2013