Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a church that killed four Black girls
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation's highest court, speaks at the 60th Commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Birmingham, Ala. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — — Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justicesaid the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward.
“If we are going to continue to move forward as a nation, we cannot allow concerns about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth or history. It is certainly the case that parts of this country’s story can be hard to think about,” Jackson said. “We have to own even the darkest parts of our past, understand them and vow never to repeat them,” Jackson said.
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell said they were standing on solemn ground where the senseless deaths “awakened a slumbering consciousness of America and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.”
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Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girlsAlabama is marking the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963
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Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girlsAlabama is marking the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963.
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