September 15, 1963 – A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — This Black History Month, students at South Hampton K-8 School in Birmingham had the chance to take part ...

Sixty years ago, four little girls in Birmingham paid the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom in the United States. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, on Thursday hosted a “Terri Talks” ...

As Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, church that killed four Black girls in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke at at 16th Street Baptist ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A powerful lesson in history and resilience was shared on Friday at Monrovia Elementary School. An Alabama civil rights survivor spoke to elementary school students, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bomb exploded in the basement of a Birmingham, Alabama, church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four young Black girls. Today, a ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The morning of September 15, 1963, Sarah Collins-Rudolph was with her sister, Addie Collins, in the basement of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church. The sisters were ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WCSC) - Four Black children were killed and more than a dozen were hurt in a bombing at a Birmingham, Alabama, church during the Civil Rights movement. The bomb exploded in a back ...

Thomas E. Blanton, the last surviving Ku Klux Klan member convicted in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four girls, died Friday. He was 81. Jefferson ...

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and one of three men convicted of murdering four Black girls in Alabama by bombing a church in 1963, has died in prison at 84 years old.