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A 1963 bombing at a Baptist Church killed 4 young girls. But a 5th survived

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We revisit host Robin Young’s 2019 visit to Sarah Collins Rudolph, the so-called fifth girl who survived the bombing of the 18th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. The bombing by members of the Ku Klux Klan killed her sister and three other young girls.

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