On This Day: September 15, 1963, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson & Cynthia Wesley Killed in KKK Bombing of Black Birmingham Church

ON THIS DAY: September 15, 1963, four little black girls -- Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley -- were killed when a bomb exploded before Sunday morning service at the predominantly black 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Twenty people were also injured in the blast, which the FBI linked to four members of the Ku Klux Klan -- Robert Chambliss, Herman Cash, Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry. The case remained unsolved until 1997 when Chambliss, known as Dynamite Bob, was convicted of murder for placing dynamite at the church. The bombing sparked widespread violence through out the city of Birmingham, which was also known as Bombingham. We must remember the sacrifices made by honorable men and women in the fight for racial justice.