Johnny Robinson and Virgil Ware. Outside of Birmingham, Alabama, those names have gone largely forgotten in the decades since Robinson and Ware died on Sept. 15, 1963, the day four Black girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. They died in the erupting chaos after the Ku Klux Klan bombed the church that morning. In the uprising that followed, a white police officer killed Robinson and a white teenager killed Ware. The decades after Robinson’s and Ware’s deaths were full of grief for the families — grief over both the loss of loved ones and the seeming invisibility of their stories. Now, they’re getting the recognition they deserve. Read more at the link in bio. 📷️ Tamika Moore / The Birmingham News via AP file Bernard Troncale / The Birmingham News via AP file