"At 10:22 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, time literally froze at a Birmingham, Ala., church. A stack of dynamite—planted under a stairway by members of the Ku Klux Klan—exploded, leveling one side of the church and killing four young girls.
At 10:22 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, siblings and other relatives of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were in the pews at the 16th Street Baptist Church, where Reverend Arthur Price delivered the same sermon the girls would have heard during their Sunday-school lesson: “A Love That Forgives.”
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| Scene From Selma, just before the explosion |
Among them was Sarah Collins Rudolph, Addie Mae Collins’ sister, who spent three months in the hospital and lost her right eye as a result of the bombing.
“I just kept wondering, why did they kill Addie? Addie never did anything for someone to kill her,” Rudolph told CBS News. “When I would go to bed at night, I would just cry all night long—just why did they kill those girls?”
At a Smithsonian exhibit I read that the bombing was revenge for The March on Washington.When I saw this scene begin in the movie "Selma" I wasn't sure I was going to be able to stay in the theater until the end.
NEVER FORGET
An article from 2 years ago, on the 50th anniversary of their deaths
http://www.diversityinc.com/news/remembering-four-little-girls-killed-in-birmingham-church-bombing-50-years-ago/
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