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(1963) A moment of quiet at the edge of a grave followed minutes of terror earlier when a racist's bomb shattered 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala. Friends and relatives gather around Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Robertson, Sr., seated at right, and a sister, at left, of 14-year-old Carole Robertson. Carole and three other young girls, attending Sunday school in the church basement, died in the explosion. Religion News Service file photo