16th Street Baptist Church bombing victim seeking apology, ... Sarah Collins Rudolph was near her sister when the bomb went off, and still carries glass in her body from the attack. Four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted fifteen sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps on the east side of the church. The 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, was a fixture in the civil rights movement -- even more so after a bombing there on September 15, 1963, killed four girls. This cemetery is the final resting place of three of the four young girls killed in the September 15, 1963 church bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. FILE - In this Sept. 15, 1963, file photo, firefighters and ambulance attendants remove a covered body from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., after by a deadly explosion detonated by members of the Ku Klux Klan during services. The fourth victim, Denise McNair, is buried elsewhere. On September 15, 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four … 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) Upon learning of the bombing at the Church, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. sent a telegram to Alabama Governor George Wallace, a staunch and vocal segregationist, stating bluntly: 'The blood of our little children is on your hands." The Rev. A view of the 'Four Spirits' statue and the 16th Street Baptist Church, Nov. 19, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala.. Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carol Robertson are buried here. In May 2001, Blanton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM, AL – JULY 05: Stained glass windows at the 16th Street Baptist Church, site of the September 15, 1963 Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on July 5, 2018. Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, left, and her husband George Rudolph applaud during a memorial service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 2013. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16 Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963. John H. Cross, the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church at the time of the bombing, recalled Sept. 15, 1963, as ''a terrible day, a day that never ended.'' The statues memorialize the four victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing …