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Johnny Robinson Untold: Sixteen Street Bombing
Johnny Robinson: Untold
The Sixteen Street Church bombing was a tragic day many lives were ruined that day, four girls were killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Riots break out, and two African-American boys, Virgil Ware, 13, and Johnny Robinson, 16, are also killed. In all, at least 20 people are injured from the initial bombing and the ensuing riots. (CNN). The four little girls that died in the Sixteen Street Bombing but no one really recognize Johnny Robinson and Virgir ware, as hero also that help in setting the back bone for the colored peoples' freedom. Johnny Robinson and Virgir also need to be known as the hero that they are
History has to recognize the teen boys as

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