Southern Poverty Law Center: 57 Years Ago, 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Awakened Nation to Deadly Consequences of Hate
September 16, 2020
September 16, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Sept. 16 (TNSPPX) -- The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following news on Sept. 15:
By Tafeni English, Director, Civil Rights Memorial Center
Addie Mae Collins was an outgoing, artistic girl who - as a Black teenager in 1963 - happily went door to door in the white neighborhoods of Birmingham, Alabama, to sell aprons and potholders that her mother had stitched together to make ends meet.
Denise McNair performed in plays, dance r . . .
By Tafeni English, Director, Civil Rights Memorial Center
Addie Mae Collins was an outgoing, artistic girl who - as a Black teenager in 1963 - happily went door to door in the white neighborhoods of Birmingham, Alabama, to sell aprons and potholders that her mother had stitched together to make ends meet.
Denise McNair performed in plays, dance r . . .