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    4 Little Girls

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    Poster of the movie 4 Little Girls
    1997     Documentary    
    USA
    1h 42min

    On a Birmingham Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, while attending Sunday school, four little girls were brutally murdered when a bomb ripped through the basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Dead were Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Denise McNair (11), Cynthia Wesley (14) and Carole Rosamond Robertson (14). A terrorist attack, orchestrated by Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss, the bombing was one in a series of racial attacks against Black people across the country, but one that had a tremendous impact on America. Told through the eyes of people who were there--survivors, witnesses, defenders and prosecutors, this account records a senseless act whose supporters once thought they would be able to put an end to integration in Birmingham. Instead, it fueled the movement further when it robbed 4 innocent children of their lives and their place in the world.

    Directed bySpike Lee
    CompanyHBO DocumentaryHBO DocumentaryHBO Documentary

    Featuring

    Maxine McNair
    Chris McNair
    Helen Pegues
    Queen Nunn
    Arthur Hanes Jr.
    Howell Raines
    Harold McNair
    Carole C. Smitherman
    Wamo Reed Robertson
    Dianne Braddock
    Carolyn Lee Brown
    Alpha Robertson
    Wyatt Tee Walker
    Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
    Florence Terrell
    Gwendolyn White
    Doris Lockhart
    Gerald Colbert
    Freeman Hrabowski III
    Shirley Wesley King
    Carolyn M. McKinstry
    David J. Vann
    Bill Baxley
    Albert Boutwell
    Andrew Young

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