MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The events of September 15th, 1963, are forever cemented in Civil Rights history. Four little girls were killed in a racially motivated bombing at a church in Birmingham, but one little girl survived.
More than 60 years later, that survivor is sharing her story with students in Madison County.
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“I knew God had spared my life, to really tell the story,” Sarah Collins Rudolph said.
On Friday, she spoke to students at Monrovia Elementary School.
Collins Rudolph was just 12 years old on September 15th, 1963. She said that morning she walked to church with her sisters, Janie and Addie Mae. She recalls the walk with mixed emotions, “just laughing all the way, not knowing what we was fixing to walk into.”…