Collins, Addie Mae (d. 1963)
Collins, Addie Mae (d. 1963)
One of the Birmingham Four. Murdered Sept 15, 1963, age 14; sister of Junie Collins Peavy and Sarah Collins Rudolph who was wounded in the bombing.
With Denise McNair (11), Cynthia Wesley (14), and Carol Robertson (14), was in the Sixteenth Street Baptist church basement in Birmingham, Alabama, preparing to attend Sunday school and the monthly Youth Day service, when a bomb went off, killing her and the others (Sept 15, 1963). In separate trials, Robert Chambliss (1977), Thomas E. Blanton (2001) and Bobby Frank Cherry (2002) were convicted of murder for the crime.
See also Spike Lee documentary 4 Little Girls (1998).
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