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September 15, 2021
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
At 10:22 am on this day in 1963, a Sunday morning, a bomb ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Addie Mae Collins (14 years), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11) were killed. The bomb was placed by the KKK.
Also on this day
Paul Robeson
The great Paul Robeson, actor, political activist, lawyer, concert singer, human rights advocate, performed ‘Othello’ on stage for a then record 296th time at the Shubert Theater in New York City on this day in 1943.
Muhammad Ali
For the first time, on this day in 1978, Muhammad Ali earned the largest ever prizefight amount of 5 million dollars.
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