The annual memorial service at 16th Street Baptist Church at 9:30 a.m. featured Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The livestream of today’s ceremony can be found here.

The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed 60 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four Black girls: Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson.

Sarah Collins was 12 on the morning of Sept. 15, 1963 when she went to 16th Street Baptist Church’s annual Youth Day event.

A state trooper and two plainclothes men stand guard at a roadblock at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a day after the bombing on Sept. 16, 1963.

10:22 a.m. The bomb exploded. In the rubble of the 16th Street Baptist Church were the bodies of Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14.

People in Birmingham, Ala., are gathering to remember the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church 60 years ago. The bombing, which killed four girls, helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act.

T he decades that have passed since the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed 55 years ago Saturday — on Sept. 15, 1963 — have not made the memory of that day any easier.

After 64 years, Caldwell, who volunteers at the day care at the new location of Holt Street Memorial Baptist Church, described the event with clarity as if the memory hadn’t faded. “I was a ...

At 10:22 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, going into what is known as the most segregated hour in the nation, Candi Staton sat in a Birmingham church with her young family.