Black Fact = 1963 (September 15) – Addie Mae Collins, Carol Robertson, Denise McNair, and Cynthia Wesley, all young girls, were killed when the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed on this date in 1963. Robert E. Chambliss, a white supremacist, was later convicted of the racist attack. Thomas E. Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry were also charged in their deaths on May 17, 2000. #theraydiotwins
Black Fact = Alberta Tucker Grimes
Black Fact = 1910 (March 22) – Alberta Tucker Grimes, the first black woman to serve as a member on the Board of Trustees of the ...