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VISIT TO BIRMINGHAM EVOKES MEMORIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS BOMBING
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - It was Youth Day at the 16th Street
Baptist Church, a day in September 1963 when the Sunday School
teacher taught students the biblical virtue of loving the enemy.
Four black girls between the ages of 11 and 15 were donning
their choir robes in the church basement when a bomb ripped through
the building, killing them and injuring 29 others.
"The windows were all smashed and the beams fell from the
ceiling," said J.L. Lowe, a deacon at the church for ...
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