Jackson says we must own hardest chapters of US history during 1963 church bombing remembrance

By KIMBERLY CHANDLER
Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a church that killed four Black girls. Speaking at 16th Street Baptist Church, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday says the nation must remember the hardest chapters of its past in order not to repeat them. Jackson is the first Black woman to serve on the high court. Dynamite exploded at 16th Street Baptist Church on the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, killing the four girls and shocking the nation. Hundreds of people, Black and white, filled the church for the remembrance. The church bell tolled four times as the names of the girls were read.