Wesley, Cynthia (d. 1963)

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Wesley, Cynthia (d. 1963)

One of the Birmingham Four. Murdered Sept 15, 1963, age 14.

With Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (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).

See also Spike Lee documentary 4 Little Girls (1998).

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