The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in the 1963 Alabama church bombing has died.
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;…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A play about the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four girls was performed in Washington D.C. by Montgomery public school students. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama hosted the Friday performance of “Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963.” The play was originally produced by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and featured a cast of public school students. The Washington…
Chris McNair, the father of one of four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, has died. His family confirmed his death Wednesday in a statement. He was 93. McNair’s daughter Denise was one of four girls killed when a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept….
Alabama’s parole board has decided against freeing a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls more than 50 years ago. The girls killed were 14 year old Addie Mae Collins, 14 year old Cynthia Wesley, 14 year old Carole Robertson, and 11 year old Carol Denise McNair. The Wednesday decision to keep 76-year-old Thomas…
