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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
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16th Street Baptist Church BombingBirmingham Church BombingBirmingham Bombing
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White supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair.
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Condoleezza Rice
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963 killed four young girls including Rice's schoolmate Denise McNair. Eight-year-old Condoleezza Rice heard the explosion from her father's church nearby. The bombing, carried out by Ku Klux Klan members, was one of the most horrific acts of racial terrorism in American history. Rice has frequently cited this event as formative to her political philosophy and her emphasis on security, institutions, and the Second Amendment (her father armed himself to protect the family during Birmingham's racial violence). The event is central to understanding Rice's worldview and her evolution from a Democrat family to the Republican Party.
Since 1963