WASHINGTON — Congress has formally commemorated the four young black girls who died in the 1963 bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The U.S. House approved a resolution on Oct. 6 honoring Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, and the Senate was expected to do the same. “Although this tragic incident obviously stirred the…
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