Prayers, songs and lessons as Alabama church marks 50th anniversary of bombing that killed 4
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hundreds of people black and white filled an Alabama church that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago to mark the anniversary of a blast that killed four little girls.
The Rev. Arthur Price taught the same Sunday school lesson that students heard the morning of the bombing: "A Love That Forgives."
Congregation members and visitors sang the old hymn "Love Lifted Me" and joined hands in prayer at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Later Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder and others are scheduled to attend a commemoration.
A dynamite bomb went off outside the church Sept. 15, 1963, killing four girls and critically injuring a fifth. The Klansmen were convicted in the bombing years later, and one remains imprisoned.