Remembering the Birmingham Church Bombing

NPR

Published September 15, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

In 1963, former Ku Klux Klansmen bombed a Baptist church that killed four young black girls in Birmingham, Ala. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Lisa McNair, the sister of one of the girls killed, and Carolyn McKinstry, a friend who survived the tragedy.

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