Earl Davis looks back on Sept. 15, 1963 and the blast that claimed the lives of four Black girls and almost took his.
-- Sixty years ago on Sept.15, 1963, four little girls lost their lives after a bomb exploded at an Alabama church, and a South Florida man was inside the church on that terrible day.would become one of the turning points in the Civil Rights Movement, fueling a national movement that would transform the U.S. and the world
Davis says a change in routine prevented him from being in the basement when the bomb that killed four little girls at the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama went off.The events that thrust the then first-year teacher from Louisiana into ground zero of the Civil Rights Movement are moments he will never forget."There was a big chandelier right over chair I was in," Davis said.
The FBI says four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted the bomb in what they have referred to as"a clear act of racial hatred."
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