Ballad of Birmingham - Dudley Randall

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46562/...

#dudleyrandall #poetry #16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing #CarolDeniseMcNair #CaroleRobertson #CynthiaWesley #AddieMaeCollins

September 15, 1963 - During Sunday School, 15 sticks of dynamite blew apart the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four children in the basement changing room,

#16thStreetBaptistBombing #4LittleGirls #AddieMaeCollins #CynthiaWesley #CaroleRobertson #DeniseMcNair

1/5

#OTD in 1963, a dynamite blast set by the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls: #DeniseMcNair, age 11, and #CaroleRobertson, #CynthiaWesley and #AddieMaeCollins, all 14 years old. Over 20 other people were injured. No one was arrested for the bombing for 14 years. #TheMarchContinues