© 2026 All Rights reserved WUSF
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Our daily newsletter, delivered first thing weekdays, keeps you connected to your community with news, culture, national NPR headlines, and more.

Remembering the Birmingham Church Bombing

In 1963, former Ku Klux Klansmen bombed a Baptist church that killed four young black girls in Birmingham, Ala. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Lisa McNair, the sister of one of the girls killed, and Carolyn McKinstry, a friend who survived the tragedy.

Copyright 2004 NPR

Tags
Thanks to you, WUSF is here — delivering fact-based news and stories that reflect our community.⁠ Your support powers everything we do.