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COMMEMORATION: Today marks 59 years since the four little girls who were murderd by the KKK bombing at the Baptist Church on 16th Street. “14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and 11-year-old Cynthia Wesley, were killed,” according to the National Park Service. “Addie’s sister Sarah survived, but lost her right eye.” Sarah Collins Rudolph who is a survivor said,“ I’m trying to live so I can live again.” “It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church,” said John Lewis, former United States Representative. “There is a lot of trauma.”