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A review of 4 Little Girls, a 1997 Spike Lee documentary about the 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist Church which resulted in the deaths of four little girls.
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- Noire History
4 Little Girls. Spike Lee tells the full story of the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls and became a defining moment in the...
Filmmaker Spike Lee and journalist Howell Raines examine the documentary," 4 Little Girls" about the 1963 bombing of a Baptist church in Alabama and the re-o...
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- Manufacturing Intellect
Oct 24, 1997 · 4 Little Girls. The little girls had gone to church early for choir practice, and we can imagine them, dressed in their Sunday best, meeting their friends in the room destroyed by the bomb. We can fashion the picture in our minds because Lee has, in a way, brought them back to life, through photographs, through old home movies and especially ...
4 Little Girls finds Spike Lee moving into documentary filmmaking with his signature style intact -- and all the palpable fury the subject requires. Read Critics Reviews
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Jul 9, 1997 · On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement.
A review of "4 Little Girls", a Spike Lee documentary about the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church which killed four little girls.
