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Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of ’63 KKK blast

Leaders pray outside 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, at the spot where a Ku Klux Klan bomb went off in 1963, killing four Black girls. A wreath-laying ceremony was held after a service marking the 59th anniversary of the bombing. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Crowd members exit 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, after a service marking the 59th anniversary of the bombing that killed four Black girls at the church in 1963. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) President Joe Biden speaks during the United We Stand Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. The summit is aimed at combating a spate of hate-fueled violence in the U.S., as he works to deliver on his campaign pledge to "heal the soul of the nation." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Rev. Arthur Price Jr. speaks at the pulpit of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, during a service marking the 59th anniversary of the bombing that killed four Black girls at the church in 1963. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Leaders pray outside 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, at the spot where a Ku Klux Klan bomb went off in 1963, killing four Black girls. A wreath-laying ceremony was held after a service marking the 59th anniversary of the bombing. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Crowd members exit 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, after a service marking the 59th anniversary of the bombing that killed four Black girls at the church in 1963. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Rev. Arthur Price Jr. speaks at the pulpit of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, during a service marking the 59th anniversary of the bombing that killed four Black girls at the church in 1963. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) FILE - Firemen and ambulance attendants remove a covered body from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where an explosion ripped the structure during services, killing four black girls, on Sept. 15, 1963. Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Sarah Collins Rudolph and her husband, George Rudolph, talk in their home on Nov. 16, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. Rudolph lost an eye and still has slivers of glass inside her body from the racist bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside a church 59 years ago Thursday. She's still waiting on the state to compensate her for those injuries. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File) FILE - Debris is strewn from a bomb that exploded near a basement room of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. on September 15, 1963, killing four black girls. Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago. (AP Photo, FILE)
Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of ’63 KKK blast