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On the morning of September 15, 1963, four young girls stood in the basement lounge of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, straightening their...
This is a contemporary on suffering and evil, drawing on Psalm 46:1.
On the morning of September 15, 1963, four young girls stood in the basement lounge of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, straightening their white dresses for Youth Day. Fourteen-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson chatted alongside eleven-year-old Carol Denise McNair — the youngest, who had just finished a Sunday School lesson about "The Love That Forgives."…
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