#OnThisDay in 1963, a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 little girls—11-year-old Carol Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Diane Wesley and Addie Mae Collins—and injuring several others. This atrocity marked the third bombing in 11 days in Birmingham, Alabama, following the federal court order integrating Alabama schools. Shards from the church's stained-glass window are on display in our exhibi

9.2K views · 48 reactions | On September 15, 1963, just weeks after the "watershed" March on Washington, four Black girls were killed in the white supremacist terrorist bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church. The attack marked an escalation of violence from opponents of the Civil Rights Movement, as historian Yohuru Williams explains in Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon's JACKIE ROBINSON: | UNUM Ken Burns | Facebook