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🗓️ 9 June 2020
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Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. The 16th Street Baptist Church was a centre for civil rights activists in the city. One of the girls who died was Addie Mae Collins, her sister, Sarah Collins Rudolph was badly injured but survived. In 2013 she spoke to Eddie Botsio about the bombing.
Photo: men carrying the coffin of Addie Mae Collins at her funeral. Copyright: BBC
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0:39.0 | All this week we're looking back through our archives at the history of Black America. |
0:44.4 | In 1963, a racist bomb attack at a church in Birmingham, Alabama in the deep south of the |
0:50.8 | USA left four young black girls dead. The 16th Street Baptist Church |
0:56.9 | was a center for civil rights activities in the city. In 2013 Eddie Bozio spoke to Sarah Collins Rudolph, who was badly injured in the attack, and |
1:07.7 | whose sister, Adi May Collins, was killed. |
1:10.6 | I want a son to see. was killed. |
1:20.0 | It's Sunday, September the 15th, 1963. It's Sunday, September the 15th, 1963, and 12-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Collins is on her way |
1:27.3 | to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with her older sister Adi |
1:32.4 | May, who's 14. |
1:34.0 | But one thing about her she was very timid and you can hurt her feelings. |
1:39.0 | She was a peacemaker in the family. |
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