16th Street Baptist Church bombing survivor serves as keynote speaker at annual MLK Breakfast
One of the survivors of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 made a stop in Montgomery this week.
Author and activist Sarah Collins Rudolph was the keynote speaker at Auburn University at Montgomery’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflections breakfast.
Often referred to as the “fifth little girl,” Rudolph was one of 22 people injured in the blast that killed her sister, 14-year-old Addie Mae, and three other girls. Rudolph, along with the four victims of the deadly blast, were in the basement of the church when the bomb went off.
From 1977 to 2002, KKK members Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash and Robert Edward Chambliss, were convicted for their roles in the bombings.
The event was originally set for January, but had to be rescheduled due to the extreme winter weather conditions.
