Today is the 50th Anniversary of the KKK bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama in 1963. Four girls, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, who were 14, and Denise McNair, who was 11 died in this act of terrorism.
There have been memorial events in Birmingham all week, and there will be a special service at the church today.
A memorial statue, was installed in Birmingham, this week.
The Four Spirits Statue, a tribute to the four little girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. The statue is situated in Kelly Ingram Park between the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and the church.
Joseph Lowery at memorial unveiling: ‘We need to turn to each other, not on each other’