U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came to Alabama for the first time ever today, to speak at the 16th Street Baptist Church. She said the nation must remember the hardest chapters of its past in order not to repeat them.
Hundreds of people, Black and white, filled the church Friday for the remembrance. The church bell tolled four times as the names of the girls were read. The crowd also stood to honor the “fifth little girl” in the room that day who survived.
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