President Barack Obama is set to sign a bill Friday that awards the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.

1963 Birmingham Bombing Survivor in Rochester Posted: February 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Dozens sat in the sanctuary of the In Christ New Hope Ministry Wednesday night listening, and ...

September 15, 1963 ... of murder for the bombing. September 15, 1963 – Four girls are killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

As Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, church that killed four Black girls in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke at at 16th Street ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala ... spoke at the 60th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church. “Today we remember the toll that was paid to secure the blessings of liberty ...

Klansmen had placed a bundle of dynamite outside the church under a set of stairs on that day in 1963. The girls were gathered in a downstairs washroom before Sunday services when ...

Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham ... Church Bombing VictimsJackson, the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, spoke at the 60th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1963 ...

AND TODAY THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REFLECTED ON THE LIVES LOST DURING THAT BOMBING AT THE BIRMINGHAM ... 15, 1963 bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church.Jackson said ...