Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing at an Alabama church 59 years ago. She’s still waiting on the state to compensate her for those injuries.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls at an Alabama church 59 years ago, and she’s still waiting on the state to compensate her for those injuries.to Rudolph for her “untold pain and suffering,” saying legislative involvement was needed.
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Rudolph said then-Gov. George C. Wallace helped lay the groundwork for the Ku Klux Klan attack on 16th Street Baptist Church with his segregationist rhetoric, and the state bears some responsibility for the bombing, which wasn’t prosecuted for years.
Ishan Bhabha, an attorney representing Rudolph, said the state’s apology — made at Rudolph’s request along with a plea for restitution — was only meant as a first step. Three Klan members convicted of murder in the bombing years later died in prison, and a fourth suspect died without ever being charged. The bombing occurred eight months after Wallace proclaimed “segregation forever” in his inaugural speech and during the time when Birmingham schools were being racially integrated for the first time.
“Additionally, in attorney-to-attorney conversations that ensued soon after, that same point was reiterated,” she said.
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