“I understand from friends who were here in Birmingham at the time that it felt like a distant event even to people who lived in nearby neighborhoods. It was probably a very guarded piece of information. It happened at a time when there, as you know, was no immediate dissemination of news. One thing that came to my mind is how long it took for me to learn about that event and to be able to try to make some sense of it in its aftermath. The tolling of a bell is a solemn act and I thought of the horror of that day - I was alive, not living in Birmingham at the time, but over in Mississippi. “I had the privilege this morning of ringing the bell in the tower at the First Presbyterian Church. “All hate is the same and it comes from a place of fear or sometimes ignorance, and we really have to work continuously to fight it.” Reporters with WBHM and the Gulf States Newsroom spoke to several people after the service to ask for their reflections on the 60th anniversary of the attack.īabara Aland Barbara Aland (Joseph King/Gulf States Newsroom) Outside, small groups of people gathered all over the city to commemorate the anniversary and reflect on the violence of the past and the progress the community has made over the decades. Inside the historic church, a crowd heard a message from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. It’s the 60th anniversary of the deadly attack that killed four young girls - 11-year-old Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, all 14 - and injured dozens more. on Friday, church bells – and the shofar at Temple Beth-El synagogue – rang out across Birmingham to honor those killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
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