62 years ago today—September 15, 1963—four girls in Birmingham were murdered by a bomb in their church. Two boys were murdered in the chaos that followed.
Six children, gone before sundown.
This is what resistance to equality looks like.
Image: The children, Denise, Carole, Addie Mae, Cynthia, Johnny, and Virgil, killed in Birmingham on September 15, 1963, Source: The Birmingham News (Sept. 1963).
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