Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Your Black History Moment - 4 Black Girls

Forty-six years ago this morning, 26 children walked into the basement assembly room of the 16th Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama) for closing prayers when a bomb exploded. Four girls: Addie Mae Collins (aged 14), Denise McNair (aged 11), Carole Robertson (aged 14), and Cynthia Wesley (aged 14) were killed in the blast.

The dynamite bombing was a terrorist attack perpetrated by members of the local Ku Klux Klan. 22 additional people were injured - a watershed moment for the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century (1955-1968).

Spike Lee created an Oscar-nominated documentary film about the bombing entitled 4 Little Girls



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