A survivor of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing shared a message of forgiveness with local students, turning her childhood tragedy into life lessons.
Rosetta “Rose” Hughes never forgot the shift she worked at Birmingham’s University Hospital in the fall of 1963. Klansmen had bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church downtown. A little girl was brought ...
September 15, 1963 – A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in the ...