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September 15th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1963
    The Record

    16th Street Baptist Church bombed

    Ku Klux Klansmen plant a bomb under the steps of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The blast kills Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, aged eleven to fourteen. One of the four men identified as responsible is tried in 1977; the last is tried in 2002.

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