Sunday,September 17, 2023. Annette’s News Roundup.
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This Roundup is part of my holy days hiatus, a chance to pause and think about what is means to be human as we start another revolve around the sun.
The sermon at our synagogue by Rabbi Deborah Goldberg reminded us of Heinrich Heine's ominous sentence, "Those who burn books will in the end burn people.” Citing contemporary attacks in America on LGBTQAI people, especially Trans children, as threats to us all, she reminded us that we are all endangered when others are endangered.
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This is also the week that marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Here 👇 is a video in which the two prosecutors, William J. Baxley and Doug Jones, explain how, many years after the bombing, they brought some of the Klansmen who bombed the church to Justice. It is extraordinary to hear their accounts of how justice finally prevailed against (racist) evil.
Watching this is a worthwhile way to spend part of your day and to honor the four children who died in the bombing. I promise.
The Prosecution of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.
On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 African-American girls.
VICTIMS OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING ON SEPT. 15, 1963: (left to right)DENISE MCNAIR, 11; CAROLE ROBERTSON, 14; ADDIE MAE COLLINS, 14; AND CYNTHIA WESLEY, 14.
In 1977, the Alabama Attorney General William J. Baxley successfully tried and convicted the first of the Ku Klux Klan members responsible for the deadly attack.
More than 20 years later, as U.S. attorney for Alabama's Northern District, G. Douglas Jones led the prosecution team that convicted two more aging Klansmen. This is their story.
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