Cyclists honor memory of 2 overlooked lives lost in Birmingham’s 1963 civil rights struggle

John Chaney remembers feeling the blast from a mile and a half away.

He was eight years old, attending New Salem Church on a Sunday morning in Birmingham when the deadly Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing killed four young girls.

But it wasn’t until years later that he would learn about the two other young Black teens who were also killed that day:…

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