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@madame_maya
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Today marks 59 years since the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four little girls.
#SarahRudolphCollins, who was only 12 at the time, lost her eye in the 1963 attack and has yet to be compensated by the state of Alabama.
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Sarah was known as the “Fifth Little Girl” after surviving the infamous attack that took the lives of
#DeniseMcNair,
#CaroleRobertson,
#CynthiaMorris, and
#AddieMaeCollins, Sarah’s older sister. Sarah says that she still incurs medical expenses as a result of the explosion, including a recurring $90 bill she gets for work on the prosthetic she wears in place of the right eye that was destroyed by shrapnel.
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Both the church and the surrounding Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument received government money for renovations, but Sarah has not. “She deserves justice in the form of c...