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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — When an initially blinded, and nearly lifeless, 12-year-old girl found in the rubble of a church bombing was wheeled onto the 10th floor of University Hospital in Birmingham ...

PAXTON — Sarah Collins Rudolph did not see the moment her life changed forever. She did not see the crater in the floor of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where she was getting ...

*Sarah Collins Rudolph was 12-years-old when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama on Sept. 15, 1963, killing her sister, and three other Black girls. Rudolph “never ...

On a normal Sunday morning, five little Black girls were together in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Until dynamite that was planted by members of the Ku Klux ...

Associated Press WriterBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- In the final trial stemming from one of the most notorious events of the civil rights era, a mostly white jury convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The father of one of four black girls killed in a racist church bombing in 1963 was home after being granted an early release from prison, and he’ll likely attend observances ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the ...

Charles Brooks, a longtime Birmingham funeral director who handled services for young victims killed in two high-profile civil rights incidents in the city, died Saturday at UAB Hospital. He was 79.

Rudolph, who was blinded in the bombing, recounts the terror of segregation in Birmingham and the long fight for justice for the victims. Despite the trauma and ...