I do remember the bombing by KuKluxKlan white supremacists of that Alabama brick Black church in 1963. The next few days, pictures were all over the Buffalo News and the Buffalo Courier which my parents received daily. The horror stuck.
Religion News Service shared a set of pictures from the bombing which I'll post here.
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| A man falls to his knees in prayer amid shattered glass from windows of
the 16th Street Baptist Church and surrounding buildings in Birmingham,
Alabama, in Sept. 1963. Four young girls died as a racist’s bomb
exploded at 10:22 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, during worship services and
Sunday school sessions. In the following outbreak of violence throughout
the area, two young black men were shot to death. Pleas for effort to
stop further bloodshed were issued from government, civil rights and
religious leaders across the nation. Religion News Service file photo | |
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| Firemen and ambulance attendants remove a covered body from
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where an explosion ripped though the
structure during services, killing four black girls, on Sept. 15, 1963.
Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her
body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other
Black girls inside the Alabama church. (AP Photo, File) |
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| Mourners gather around Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Robertson Sr., seated at
right, and a sister, at left, of 14-year-old Carole Robertson. Carole
and three other young girls, attending Sunday school in the basement of
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, died in the 1963
terrorist bombing. Religion News Service file photo |
Yesterday's commemoration in the Baptist Church:
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| Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on
the nation’s highest court, speaks at the 60th Commemoration of the 16th
Street Baptist Church bombing Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Birmingham,
Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) |
Never again? It feels hard to promise ...
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