#HappyBirthday #SpikeLee #filmmaker #AcademyAwardWinner #BlacKkKlansman #DoTheRightThing #4LittleGirls #ShesGottaHaveIt #SchoolDaze #MoBetterBlues #JungleFever #MalcolmX #25thHour #ChiRaq #Da5Bloods #Highesr2Lowest #SpikeLeeJoint #PopCultureIcon #geek #blog #film #GeekWithClipOns #IReviewStuff #IRS
Shout to former Alabama AG Bill Baxley, who helped bring him to justice in spite of multiple threats like this. #4LittleGirls
This letter was sent to AG Bill Baxley when he reopened the case. His reply was priceless....
*Bill Baxley is still with us, he's 84 years old.
#4LittleGirls #Birmingham
September 15, 1963 - During Sunday School, 15 sticks of dynamite blew apart the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
9/15/1963 - During Sunday School, 15 sticks of dynamite blew apart the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 children in the basement changing room, & injuring 23 others.
#16thStreetBaptistBombing #4LittleGirls #AddieMaeCollins #CynthiaWesley #CaoleRobertson #DeniseMcNair
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We must NEVER forget.
We must NEVER become complacent or complicit to the hate of racism.
That necessitates a LOVE OF BEING BLACK and a genuine love of Black people, which includes acting in our interest. #4LittleGirls
🚫Herman Cane
🚫Byron Donalds
🚫Ben Carson
🚫Tim Scott
🚫Blacks for tRump
realization of the American dream.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Although the terrorist act occurred more than 60 years before our visit, our spirits were still heavy as we entered that space.
#16StBaptistChurch
#4LittleGirls
On a #spikelee mood lately! 🎬🍿 #malcolmx #junglefever #4littlegirls #blackkklansman #movies #letterboxd #instagram #facebook #laborday @pt.letterboxd.social #bestoftheday
The correct way to respond to racist trash... he responded and got a conviction... he didn't let them intimidate him. #4LittleGirls #Birmingham
FTR: Bill Baxley is still alive
#Toured #16thstreetbaptistchurch where the #4LittleGirls died in the #bombing #CivilRights #civilrightsmovement
I prefer the remembrances that acknowledge how hard MLK, John Lewis, so many others had to fight & the danger brave activists faced & STILL FACE. #MLK #freedomriders #Boycotts #4LittleGirls #Selma #Mississippi #Birmingham #LittleRock #Memphis
Awful 50th anniversary of a story wrenchingly told in @SpikeLee's #4LittleGirls.
