At 10:19 on sunday morning,Sept 15, 1963, a simple time-delay fuse triggered a dozen sticks of dyna-mite outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. The massive explosion tore through the church just before services. When the smoke cleared, parishioners found the bodies of 11-year-old Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. No attack against the civil-rights movement was ever deadlier—or more frustrating, as two of the well-known suspects walked free for nearly 37 years.
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