| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/04/25, 7:45 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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It’s been nearly 50 years since four young girls were killed after members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb at their Sunday school in
Birmingham, Ala., simply because of the color of their skin. But five
decades later, lawmakers have moved one step closer to posthumously
awarding the “four little girls,” as they are known by some, with the
Congressional Gold Medal, proving that their memory remains seared into
our national consciousness.
“These children, unoffending, innocent, and beautiful were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against
humanity,” said the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a eulogy for the four children–Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise McNair, 11, Carole
Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14. “They died nobly. They are the
martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity.”
Read more and remember
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