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“If four little girls dressed in white for Sunday school can be blown to pieces because of hatred, everyone has to stop and think, where are we going as a society?” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":20191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[921,5893,2781,5368,2786,990,2119],"class_list":["post-20089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-african-american","tag-birmingham","tag-civil-rights-movement","tag-hate-crimes","tag-racism","tag-terrorism","tag-violence","topics-race","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"\nSeptember 13, 2013 ~ Birmingham Church Bombing 50th Anniversary | September 13, 2013 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fifty years after it was bombed, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church stands as a witness to the 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