Alabama Senator on White Supremacist Church Attacks ‘Words Matter’

almost 6 years in Roll Call

History can repeat itself if we forget that “words matter,” Alabama’s junior senator warned as he reflected on a white supremacist attack that shook Birmingham in 1963.
Ku Klux Klan members killed four young girls when they blew a hole in the side of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Years later, Doug Jones was the prosecutor who finally went after two of the bombers.

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