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- The "Four Spirits" was created as a memorial to the four little girls that died in the 16th Street Church bombing in 1963: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carolyn Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Carolyn McKinstry, a survivor of the bombing, opened the unveiling ceremony with a prayer at Kelly Ingram Park, across the street from the church.
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Four young girls were killed, and many other children injured, in a racially motivated bombing before Sunday morning church services in Birmingham, Alabama.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group.
- September 15, 1963; 60 years ago, 10:22 a.m. (UTC-5)
Sep 15, 2013 · BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - More than 200 people turned out for the unveiling of the "Four Spirits" sculpture in Kelly Ingram Park on Saturday. The "Four Spirits" was created as a memorial to the four little girls that died in the 16th Street Church bombing in 1963: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carolyn Robertson and Cynthia Wesley.
- Alan Collins
Sep 14, 2018 · The statues memorialize the four victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Drew Angerer—Getty Images. By Olivia B. Waxman. September 14, 2018 10:30 AM EDT. T he decades...
Sep 15, 2020 · The lives of all four girls intertwined and tragically ended at 10:21 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, when a bomb planted by Klansmen outside the ladies’ lounge at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham exploded, instantly killing them and injuring 20 others.
Sep 15, 2013 · Andrew Yeager | September 15, 2013. City and civil rights leaders in Birmingham unveiled the “Four Spirits” statue in Kelly Ingram Park Saturday memorializing the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, one day before the 50th anniversary of that tragedy.
Sep 14, 2023 · Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR. On Sept. 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. This week, the city is remembering one of the darkest chapters...
