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On the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham church bombing, we recognize #JohnnyRobinson and #VirgilWare, two Black boys who have been largely forgotten as victims of the attack.

Ware and Robinson died on September 15, 1963 after four girls —14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carol Robertson and 11-year-old Denise McNair — were killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. For decades, only the four girls received national attention.

But aside from the four, Robinson, 16, and Ware, 14, were the only people who died in the aftermath of the bombing. Robinson was with his friends when a group of white people drove past them waving Confederate flags and spewing racial slurs. Ware was riding on the handlebars of his brother's bike when a white boy told his friend to fire a shot to "scare" them.

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(📸: Zinn Education Project)

It takes a cruel and evil person to murder innocent children let alone innocent black children let alone four innocent black girls. Children are bright lights in our world, flowers that are just starting to blossom and taking away their innocence or their lives is the worst

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#NeverForget #Cynthia Wesley #CaroleRobertson #AddieMaeCollins (all 14 years old), and 11-year-old #DeniseMcNair - The four girls murdered in the #16thStreetBaptistChurchBombing 60 years ago today (Sept. 15, 1963) in Birmingham, Alabama. The heinous act of white supremacist domestic terrorism was carried out soon after the 1963 #MarchonWashington for Jobs and Freedom (Aug. 28, 1963.)

#SarahCollinsRudolph was severely injured in the bombing and two Black boys were murdered that same day in Birmingham: 16-year-old #JohnnyRobinson and 13-year-old #VirgilWare.

Image 1: Quilt by artist Sylvia Hernandez’s @quiltgirl61 #4littlegirls #16stbaptistchurch

Video and caption reposted from @nmaahc #OnThisDay in 1963, a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 little girls—11-year-old Carol Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Diane Wesley and Addie Mae Collins—and injuring several others.

This atrocity marked the third bombing in 11 days in Birmingham, Alabama, following the federal court order integrating Alabama schools. Shards from the church's stained-glass window are on display in our exhibition "Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation" as a reminder of this tragic incident.

Racially motivated attacks on Black people, their homes and their churches grew so common that the city was referred to as “Bombingham.” African American civil rights activists made Birmingham a focal point of their desegregation campaign.

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📸 1.2.3.4. Courtesy of Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 5. Stained glass rosette shard from the 16th Street Baptist Church. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Family of Rev. Norman C. "Jim" Jimerson and Melva Brooks Jimerson 6. The damaged interior of the church is shown in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Courtesy of Tom Self/Birmingham News, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#Bombingham #ThisIsAmerica

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#blackhistory365 #birminghamalabama #virgilware #johnnyrobinson #fourlittlegirls #civilrightsmovement https://www.instagram.com/p/B2bvkN3D2ZZ/?igshid=lfvma979oal1

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We can never forget them! #DeniseMcNair #CynthiaWesley #AddieMaeCollins #CarolRobertson #September15th1963 #OurHistory #16thstreetbaptistchurchbombing #wewillneverforget #4littleblackgirls We also remember #SarahCollinsRudolph who was severely injured in the bombing and two boys were murdered that same day in #Birmingham 16 year old #JohnnyRobinson and 13 year old #VirgilWare #GodBless

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We have stories. We have stories within stories, in front of stories, hidden stories and behind stories. We are amazing and writers should be busy. I wrote this a couple of years ago. #virgilware #birminghamalabama #americanhistory #africanamericanhistory #civilrightsmovement https://www.instagram.com/p/BnxUTdZny3c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19u7txqjs330h

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We have so many stories to write. Memories to maintain. Schedule this 10 minute play for your festivals today! #theatre #playwrights #blacktheatre #womenplaywrights #literature #africanamericantheatre #americanhistory #africanamericanhistory #virgilware #birmingham #civilrightsmovement