'I want people to not forget them': Sister of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victim reflects on tragedy 60 years later

Posted on AllSides September 15th, 2023
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BIRMINGHAM, A.L. (WNCN) — At 10:22 a.m. Friday morning marked 60 years since the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama. Four little girls died in that blast. Their tragic deaths birthed a major change in the modern Civil Rights Movement. For one woman, it was more than a moment in history, it changed her life before she was even born. Lisa McNair’s sister Denise was one of those four young girls, who at 10;22 Sunday morning on September 15, 1963, lost their lives in that hate-filled...

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