From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Selma Dallas County Library hosted an event Thursday afternoon — that provided some unique insight into the 16th Street Baptist Church terrorist bombing of 1963. Author Lisa McNair is the sister of Denise McNair — one of the four girls killed in the bombing. She was the featured guest at “Lunch at the Library”….
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four Black girls.
Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed her sister and three other Black girls, but she’s still waiting on the state to compensate her.
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP) The last surviving KKK member convicted in the 1963 bombing that killed four black girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham has died in prison. Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. died of natural causes. He was 81. The bombing killed four girls: Addie Mae Collins, 14; Denise McNair, 11;…
