Honoring the legacy and impact of America's civil rights movement.

An article on U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell

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U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell represents Alabama's 7th Congressional District, the focal point of numerous notable civil rights events in the 1960s. She thinks often about a tragedy that occurred just two years before her birth - the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.

The Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church

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On September 15th, 1963, four young Black girls, aged 11 to 14, were killed when a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Immediately after, police clashed with enraged members of the black community, and at least two other black teens were killed. In 1977, Robert Chambliss, a white supremacist, was convicted in the bombing. Two others were later convicted.

Sarah Collins Rudolph

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On Sept. 15, 1963, four young girls lost their lives when a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. But there was a fifth little girl who survived the Sunday School blast – Sarah Collins Rudolph. Only 12 at the time of the bombing, Collins Rudolph is the lone survivor of the Ku Klux Klan attack that killed her sister, Addie Mae, and three other girls.