The why was answered years ago the hows will never be answered: How long does it take before compassion means nothing? How long can one look at themselves in the mirror and say "our cause is just" in a society where justice has no meaning? How long does it take before you're the very evil you claim to be against? How blind did you have to be from 1945 onwards to pretend that something wasn't right?
bless the children that never saw it coming and the people who did this i hope they burn in hell and i pray for the children that were in the fire and my prayiers be with them
@iloveforeigncars hey be nice ok she may be right alright this it made for those poor children who lost there life to the KKK they had a life to live but no they died i do think Obama will change things be nice. R.I.P little girls.
i wuld love to hav those girls see how life is now its alot better then b4 we even hav a black president so i hope the men who did the bombing desevred to go hell and burn with all the other cowards
we watchied the movie three times in a row we just culdnt take it all in once i mena we have some really tough white anf black boys and girls in the class and we were all ablling i was so sad. and we read what connie lynch said and we were like wtf who would say that we were really angry cuz we were like every person on this erath is normal. so dont just take it out on black people or any race
those killers must didn't have nothing else to do that day one of the killer had seven children by his wife that he use to beat and after she passed away from cancer he gave all his kids to orphanage jus to go out to kill.
Mixing that Joan Baez song with this video is a recipe for a tear jerker.
I was sad, then mad, angry, then steaming angry and in the end just broke down in tears.
Those were some pathetic disgusting pieces of shit that bombed that church and killed those girls. Makes me wish so much these pricks could be alive to see a black man as President. I would gloat at their disgust and horror.
In class we read a book called Watsons go to Birmingham and it ties in with this terrible thing, we also watched this vid in class about it, everybody cried
@MrClayman13 yeah im starting 2 read that book..idk if we r gonna watch the movie but we had 2 look up this song 4 hw and write 8 or 9 sentences on it...it was really depressing 2 listen about it..but yet i want 2 learn more...things like this bombing make me sometimes feel bad 2 be white...
@MrClayman13 were about to read it in class so we watched videos and read stories all about segregation and we watched this video i was sobbing i was super sd
We look back and see the scars of what we did to each other for a stupid reason such as the color of your skin. As a result we killed each other for the blood, and the children such as these 4 and so many others had to die for the name of FREEDOM. But above all that I am proud to say that I live in America, because even though it took so long for equality to ring true for everyone, it does today, and that's all that matters. :]
First these poor girls, Emmett Till, Adam Walsh, Judith Barsi, JonBenèt Ramsey, and other children that have been murdered! Just stop doing this to children that didn't do any harm to anyone! Especially parents too!
It disgust me when people kill children. Those little girls were just going to church, minding their own business but they lose their life because some idiot is getting all fired up by something as race.
I'm sorry to hear those girls got killed by a crackhead. I'm sure Addie, Denise, Cynthia and Carole are in a better place. Denise McNair was kinda popular.
This is like the saddest song ever.Whats wrong with that man!Good thing he went to jail and they died like a long time ago.I hate Klu Klux Klam and i hope this organation will be demolished!
In the eyes of the traitors who bombed the church the girls weren't even human because they weren't white and thus had no right to live and they knew they would be hailed as heroes by the city and state governments. At the time 26 children where in the Sunday School rooms when the bomb exploded and sadly two more, Virgil Ware age 13 and Johnny Robinson age 16 died in the resulting riot sadly justice was still denied, the fourth bomber Herman Cash died before being charged
Omg this is such a good song but so sad. We read the book ''The WEatson's Go To BuRMINGHam'' and then we watched this video and its just so freakin sadd. = ' [
It is: Robert Chambless :"Dynamite Bob" Bobbby Frank Cherry, and Thomas Blanton Jr. were the only ones charged and sent to prison for th bombing but it is believed that upto five were invovled in the bombing, but two, Herman Cash and Troy Ingram, died without being charged.
Cherry died in prison, and is believed to have been the one who lit the fuse, which he bragged about until he was locked u
Hey I am not American so I need to ask, is there still white/black hatered of each other as it was in the civil righst era or are all you guys in the South now mixing freely and living as ONE? Thanks for the replies
Kind of. It's definitely not nearly as bad as it was. People still hold prejudices against blacks, but these are hardly acted on. It's more of a personal war, not so physical. But no, we are not yet ONE, I'm sorry to say.
In a way yes and no. It's no where near the level it was from 1896 till the late 1970s. But people, both black and white, still hold prejudices against each other, and every so often racism still rears it's ugly head
It really saddens me that innocent young girls were killed for no reason (like there would be a reason to do what happened). I know that those who killed and tortured the people during this era are going to have to answer to GOD someday if they aren't already burning in hell.
In that era, the worst crime committed was people choosing to turn a blind eye to the suffering Jim Crow was causing. People tried to justify it by saying they were preserving their heritage and custims from an unwanted "invasion" but all they were doing was preserving a system that had corrupted their very souls, a system that needed to die and should've died in 1865.
In the end this tragedy should serve as a reminder where bigotry will always end, and that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
the first time i heard this song was when my gr.12 english teacher was playing protest songs for us to study. . .and i have loved this sad and powerfull song since then. . .
@chipmunklover125 When i first saw this in History class when we were doing poems for this, i almost cried, and so did everybody else. Such a horrible story, RIP those little girls. ="(
@chipmunklover125 dont be so sorry, whites killed by them heavly outnumbered these 4. hwr, 4 less werfare to pay, and 85 new generations of african less (make children is the only thing they're able to do)
we watched this documentary in school today. im in 8th grade and we're learning about what happened and everything. right now im connecting the harlem renaissance, 4 little girls, the black kids who fought to go to school with white kids, mlk's i have a dream speech, all to eachother.
This song is so moving...I first saw it during Social Studies, when we were learning about the Baptist Church Bombing. I can honestly say that when my teacher told us we were going to listent to a song about it i was not expecting anything very good, I mean which artist in their right mind would write and sing a song about a historical event
Joan Baez is now one of the best singers i have ever heard. I was shaking and had goose bumps by the end... this song brought tears to my eyes... thanks!
I know I first listened to this song in social studies too and we watched the movie and i cried so much, and then yesterday we just went to birmingham, to the kelly inman park where we ate lunch and then we went in to the museum and then we got to go in the acutall 16th church, it was sad what happened but our nation is stronger because of it.
I've had to watch the documentary on this every year since 6th grade for black history month in my history class. It's really sad. I always feel bad for there families and friends.
this is very sad that this really happened in the land we all know and love may God bless those poor children that died just because of their race it makes me sick. and those racest people call themselves christians but they didn't think that those kids were God's children to and Jesus died for EVERYONE and he loves EVERYONE!!!
It's crazy because I didn't even know about these girls and the church at all. I watched in my history class and it was the first time I've ever seen it. I nearly cried seeing this movie. I have never been so sad in my life. Knowing that could have been a friend or a brother or sister of mine,just killed me. These girls will forever be missed ♥
"The victims weren't children, Children are little human beings, and that means white people. They were just little Niggers, and if there are four less niggers tonight I say good for who ever planted the bomb."
Rev. Connie Lynch, September 15th 1963
Of everything that happened that day, this statement stands out the most for me. That anyone, could be cruel enough to not only support the traitors who commited this crime, but to say the girls they killed had no right to live, is unforgivable
I've never heard of Rev. Connie Lynch, but I hope a special place in Hell is reserved for her. From her statement, she was a vile, contemptible hate monger.
Connie Lynch was actually a man. What he said in the aftermath of the bombing was only the tip of the iceberg, his bigotry was so great he traveled the country giving speeches where he praised acts of brutality and encouraged mass murder and violence against everyone in the civil rights movement, be they marchers, organizers, or leaders.
@snakes3425 The fact that the demon who uttered those words, claimed to be a person of Faith, one who was thought of as a teacher of God's words, a person "of the cloth", makes vomit rise up into my throat. They above others should have known what God has said about all the creatures He created, and to try to take away from these beautiful girl's worth, makes them worse than satan himself.
Connie Lynch wasn't unique among ministers, he was just one of the most flamboyant, and proof that even churches weren't immune to the venom that had poisoned the country at the time. I've seen pictures of old people, men, women and even children at Segregationist Protests, Klan Rallies, and Citizens Council Meetings holding signs with Bible Verses inscribe on them, or actually holding or reading from the Bible, using it to justify their cruelty.
@snakes3425 HEY! Im white! And i hate racism! Their black! Oh my god they
should NOT be killed! Your just racist! And what if one of those poor LITTLE HUMAN BEINGS was your little sister? Or even you? How would you feel? Pretty bad i think! Get the fuck off of youtube NO BODY wants your racism here! (and if it was a quote said by another person....then im sorry for what i said)
@snakes3425 You are evil just like the slime that planted those bombs. You think you're a Christian? You're NOT!! You are one of the many imps of Satan who are soon going to meet an end befitting anybody who uses God as a guise to do exactly what He speaks against. Racism of ANY kind is EVIL and of Satan. Hell fire awaits!!
@snakes3425 You are so right. At first I was worried, I didn't see the quotes at the beginning, so I thought you were saying that in your opinion. I was like....ummm....racial?
what was wrong with the usa then we are the united states of america not the united white men of america this was the most dissapointing time in the world countries looked up to us and we did this
PsychoticPrplFlower your video of this song brought tears to my eyes as is fitting for both of the subject matter and Joan Baez's performance.
As someone who was nearly an adult when this whole incident happened those many years ago, I marvel at how calloused we then were as a nation and how much of the progress made back then was lost in the past 28 years.
agreeing with horsegal90 she is right. For one of the girls it was her brithday. Those families did not deserve that to happen to them. All of the racist people that even think to do this shall be shuned. ='( those poor poor girls, listening to there families talk it was just so sad..and they don't even arrest all the guys that had to do with the bombing until 12 years later????? only 1 got arrested in that same year... plain sad =/
It's just horrible what a group of racist people can do... =/ Those girls didn't deserve to die, especially the poor girl who it was her birthday. I saw a documentary with their families speaking, and it was so depressing. Poor families...I would have been devastated. </3 Rest In Peace, all the people who were killed for the civil rights we have today.
May those girls rest in peace and be held in the arms of God. This world is cursed with vain, terrorists, and racists. Every person deserves a life no matter the color of their skin or thier race. Sadely some people fail to see below the surface of a persons skin and judge outamatically that they are people sent from Hell. Every person is the same no matter thier skin color.
I saw this utterly shameful picture of a four year-old boy wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit. things like that bring tears to my eyes. :'(. just because you don't feel its necessary to be tolerant of a certain group DOES NOT give you the right to kill those within that group.
A story about a woman(WHITE) who was killed by the KKK down there to march and help organize.The gunmen(KKK).If anybody knows of this woman, her name, please write me ...One of the gunmen was a government employee.There is a church with maybe some kind of monument where she was murdered off the highway.GOD BLESS US ALL.
this song is sad..its kind of shameful how grown men could be able to kill little children and not feel any remorse for it...this song is sad and depressing R.I.P gIRLS
They were sick, sick people, Klu Klux Klan redneck pieces of Shit.
I'm so glad these lowlives are in the minority as a group, lets hope these little girls didn't die in vain, because racism is the biggest curse on earth, not religion.
I live right near Birmingham, and went to the Civil rights museum which is right across from Kelly ngram Park and the church. Unfortunately the shurch was closed the day I went.
that was one of the most terrible things that i have ever seen in my life how can someone have that much hatred in their heart i wouldnt be able to live with myself if i ever killed little girls just because of their skin color !!!!at school we watched a video when we read the watsons go to birmingham and the video made me so angry and sad at the same time
wanna learn more about birmingham type in kelly ingram park and see where it all went down were people were shot down water holeses and bitten up by dogs for no reason by the police check it out and pass it along and send me facts about your black history from your town because it's the same every where also type in birmingham jail and aee where dr. king was incarsonrated
i'm 26 yeats old and from birmingham,alabama and i live 3 minutes away from the church see all most everyday it has been restored now they build the civil right institue across the street it sits between 6 avenue and 8 avenue on the same block where hill school is that's where condeleeza rice attened school off 8 avenue that's where general colin powell's wife father founded parker high school it's well over 100 years old my city is so rich with african american history
I'm going to watch the 4 Little Girls documentary tomorrow in my class; we just finished The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963. such a great book! Thank you so much for this beautiful video. I'd never heard the song before, and wow-love it. Rest in peace Addie, Denise, Cynthia, and Carole. I won't ever forget any of you. I didn't know you, but I know you were just as precious to your families Joetta was to the Watsons.
@PympHarD It is really sad, it's to teach us that black people aren't toys or pieces of garbage. They are living human beings that want to be respected.
This is a beautiful tribute to 4 Angels who deserved to live a long life. I first learned about Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson in junior high from a children's digest story. Rest in peace little princesses.
Im reading the watsons go to birmingham and it is SO sad! I thought at first that Joetta Watson dies in the church! Thank god kenny saved her! R.I.P. Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Colins, an the other two who i forgot thier names. So yeah. ROCK ON!!! I love Joan Baez!
Joan Baez has a God-given talent with that voice. The beautiful and haunting song "Birmingham Sunday" was written by Joan's late brother-in-law Richard Farina. He was married to Joan's late younger sister Mimi Baez.
I just read the book the Watsons go to Birmingham 1963 about a week ago and watched the movie just today...I can't believe this all really happened. it made me want to cry so bad.
The voice of conscience to millions! God Bless You Joan Baez! A true American patriot!
MiserableOldFart 6 days ago
I Watched the Spike Lee Documentary About this It Was Called "4 Little Girls"
Just Sad..
DietPomPoms 1 week ago 3
even today, after all those years, it makes me cry. WHY, OH GOD, WHY, SO MUCH HATE?? only beause they had another skin colour?
filmjorka 1 week ago
So as of right now, their are 5 racist asswipes who disliked this song out of hate? Possibly..
dramaqueentk 1 month ago
we haven't read that book, but we watched the movie documentry and I luved this song so much!
dramaqueentk 1 month ago
I read that book too... so sad :'(
Tayjune11 1 month ago
we read the book also
the epilouge tought me somthing
Mw3Jay 1 month ago
Somebody tell me why does colour or race matter we all bleed the same colour.
noddy759 2 months ago
still a lot eyes never opened for the thruth. How sad.
filmjorka 4 months ago
The why was answered years ago the hows will never be answered: How long does it take before compassion means nothing? How long can one look at themselves in the mirror and say "our cause is just" in a society where justice has no meaning? How long does it take before you're the very evil you claim to be against? How blind did you have to be from 1945 onwards to pretend that something wasn't right?
snakes3425 5 months ago
bless the children that never saw it coming and the people who did this i hope they burn in hell and i pray for the children that were in the fire and my prayiers be with them
lilemochick3 8 months ago
Those Four Little Girls while never be forgotten. Obama is Their Hero. Change has and will continue to come.
ShellSmile510 8 months ago
@ShellSmile510 haha thats pretty funny..........obama ya right
iloveforeigncars 7 months ago
@iloveforeigncars hey be nice ok she may be right alright this it made for those poor children who lost there life to the KKK they had a life to live but no they died i do think Obama will change things be nice. R.I.P little girls.
yvonnethomson13 6 months ago
Just goes to show how horrible humanity can be
Mexiamerican2012 8 months ago 3
i luv the song hope thats evil people didnt do that i cry everytime i hear about
peace543w 8 months ago
Great Song But Horrible peole who did that
ihatehaters24 8 months ago
My class watched it so many times. Thanks for a great yet real sad song.
kittenlove62 9 months ago
my mom thinks this song is stupid because it wasnt the only churck to be blown up and not the only ppl who died. communist. i love this song
shecat2467 9 months ago
i know all the words to this song who also gets chills and shiver when listening to this song
mangosrock908 9 months ago 2
Beatiful song..
mikeyboy348 9 months ago 4
Nobody will get away from committing crimes against humanity, those that knew and did nothing, including the government.
Peace
naturlelsol 9 months ago
i wuld love to hav those girls see how life is now its alot better then b4 we even hav a black president so i hope the men who did the bombing desevred to go hell and burn with all the other cowards
mangosrock908 9 months ago 3
WHO CLICKED DISLIKE?!?!?!?!?!
luvthesunshine241 9 months ago
@luvthesunshine241 probolly the kids thought thst if they cl8cked it wuld mean that they disliked what happened that caused this song mayb
mangosrock908 9 months ago
@mangosrock908 I hope thats what they meant
luvthesunshine241 9 months ago
@mangosrock908 same here im using this song for our watsons go to birminham project we have to make a cd with songs that relate to the book
mangosrock908 9 months ago
we watchied the movie three times in a row we just culdnt take it all in once i mena we have some really tough white anf black boys and girls in the class and we were all ablling i was so sad. and we read what connie lynch said and we were like wtf who would say that we were really angry cuz we were like every person on this erath is normal. so dont just take it out on black people or any race
mangosrock908 10 months ago
Everytime I hear this song... I almost cry and I get cold chills...
Angelbabe552 10 months ago
Klu Klux Klan are cowards. Why do you think they wear those bed sheets?
jimihendrixfan2008 11 months ago
We watched thiss movie in class, it's soo sad:( R.I.P.(:
ShelbssandJadie123 11 months ago
this song is so beautiful :') my class listened to this song today.
BrownRecluseGirl 1 year ago
thanks a lot for your wonderful video
suiru 1 year ago
those killers must didn't have nothing else to do that day one of the killer had seven children by his wife that he use to beat and after she passed away from cancer he gave all his kids to orphanage jus to go out to kill.
jazzyfayy1983 1 year ago
Mixing that Joan Baez song with this video is a recipe for a tear jerker.
I was sad, then mad, angry, then steaming angry and in the end just broke down in tears.
Those were some pathetic disgusting pieces of shit that bombed that church and killed those girls. Makes me wish so much these pricks could be alive to see a black man as President. I would gloat at their disgust and horror.
bubblinbrownsugar616 1 year ago
In class we read a book called Watsons go to Birmingham and it ties in with this terrible thing, we also watched this vid in class about it, everybody cried
MrClayman13 1 year ago 13
@MrClayman13 Same here. We read the book, watched this vid, and now we're watching a movie about it in class.
xXjesXjacknifeXx 1 year ago
@MrClayman13 yeah im starting 2 read that book..idk if we r gonna watch the movie but we had 2 look up this song 4 hw and write 8 or 9 sentences on it...it was really depressing 2 listen about it..but yet i want 2 learn more...things like this bombing make me sometimes feel bad 2 be white...
ArtisticTriplets 10 months ago
@MrClayman13 were about to read it in class so we watched videos and read stories all about segregation and we watched this video i was sobbing i was super sd
mangosrock908 10 months ago
@MrClayman13 o my goodness we r reading that book in my class now i love byron he hilarious but i love this video
luvmonkey25 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Racism of ANY kind is demonic and evil. This was an example of how evil works.
Bok97 1 year ago
We look back and see the scars of what we did to each other for a stupid reason such as the color of your skin. As a result we killed each other for the blood, and the children such as these 4 and so many others had to die for the name of FREEDOM. But above all that I am proud to say that I live in America, because even though it took so long for equality to ring true for everyone, it does today, and that's all that matters. :]
emilyjewelltom 1 year ago
First these poor girls, Emmett Till, Adam Walsh, Judith Barsi, JonBenèt Ramsey, and other children that have been murdered! Just stop doing this to children that didn't do any harm to anyone! Especially parents too!
JustinBieber4496oxo 1 year ago
It disgust me when people kill children. Those little girls were just going to church, minding their own business but they lose their life because some idiot is getting all fired up by something as race.
R.I.P girls, you're all in a better place.
namemydoglola 1 year ago 2
47 YEARS HAVE PASSED.......
lovingly remembered....
billyralphweeden 1 year ago
life is not fair in class we read the watson's go to birminham 1963
lapecas100 1 year ago
@lapecas100 so did we and we wached the movie the four little girls it is all so sad
TheCarlota38 1 year ago
Joan Baez the lady who sanf this is my friends great grandma
omasde1 1 year ago
it was 22 sticks of dynamite the newspaper ( 1:17) is wrong
rose497631 1 year ago
@rose497631 no it was 10 but i was still terrible
mangosrock908 9 months ago
I'm sorry to hear those girls got killed by a crackhead. I'm sure Addie, Denise, Cynthia and Carole are in a better place. Denise McNair was kinda popular.
petermullinvideos 1 year ago
she was the youngest of all of them she was 11 the rest were 14
rose497631 1 year ago
oh my gosh so sad... I almost cried watching it...
karenstar1997 1 year ago
This is like the saddest song ever.Whats wrong with that man!Good thing he went to jail and they died like a long time ago.I hate Klu Klux Klam and i hope this organation will be demolished!
mjgurmessarocks 1 year ago
when i heard this song and i learned about the event i felt like crying!!! How could anyone hurt children, its irritating and annoying!
magicanimegurl 1 year ago 3
will never forget my brothers and sisters who died in the struggle let freedom ring and justice sing
skinnyminny25 1 year ago 2
we read the Watsons go to Burmingham and we watched the moviee
mjsuperfly1127 1 year ago
That was the saddest song I ever heard. Why would someone do something like that to children like that. Do you think it's right to kill a lady, No.
petermullinvideos 1 year ago 20
@petermullinvideos
In the eyes of the traitors who bombed the church the girls weren't even human because they weren't white and thus had no right to live and they knew they would be hailed as heroes by the city and state governments. At the time 26 children where in the Sunday School rooms when the bomb exploded and sadly two more, Virgil Ware age 13 and Johnny Robinson age 16 died in the resulting riot sadly justice was still denied, the fourth bomber Herman Cash died before being charged
snakes3425 5 months ago
@petermullinvideos I agree just because of hatred of three men
Mw3Jay 1 month ago
You have to be a sick individual to even contemplate bombing a church for any reason.
cherishshanae 1 year ago 4
I saw the movie.... It was so sad i cried but i asked my teacher for the name of this becuase its at the begining of the 4 little girls...
iRandomCosplay 1 year ago
Omg this is such a good song but so sad. We read the book ''The WEatson's Go To BuRMINGHam'' and then we watched this video and its just so freakin sadd. = ' [
pinkie164 1 year ago
@pinkie164 My class is reading Watsons and we watched the video too. I want to do this song for my talent show.
JacobBlackismyman246 1 year ago
Crossing with jordan is a book. kinda ties in with this song. my class is reading it now. so far, its amazing but really sad :'(
KHGirl1460 1 year ago
you should also sing the watsons go to birmingham - 1963, very very nice book, sad too... I will probably like Crossing with jordan
HptProductions 1 year ago
I do like this song.
Celestialhost 2 years ago
VERI SAD D:
johnnycadeluver101 2 years ago
at 2:05, are those the men who bombed the church?
gymlovr828 2 years ago
@gymlovr828
It is: Robert Chambless :"Dynamite Bob" Bobbby Frank Cherry, and Thomas Blanton Jr. were the only ones charged and sent to prison for th bombing but it is believed that upto five were invovled in the bombing, but two, Herman Cash and Troy Ingram, died without being charged.
Cherry died in prison, and is believed to have been the one who lit the fuse, which he bragged about until he was locked u
snakes3425 2 years ago
Hey I am not American so I need to ask, is there still white/black hatered of each other as it was in the civil righst era or are all you guys in the South now mixing freely and living as ONE? Thanks for the replies
Pello
pello777 2 years ago
Kind of. It's definitely not nearly as bad as it was. People still hold prejudices against blacks, but these are hardly acted on. It's more of a personal war, not so physical. But no, we are not yet ONE, I'm sorry to say.
ohjohnnybaby 2 years ago 3
there is still racism, just not as overt or bad
SEATO12 2 years ago
im friends with alot of black people i guess it ended
xoxocelestexoxo 2 years ago
In a way yes and no. It's no where near the level it was from 1896 till the late 1970s. But people, both black and white, still hold prejudices against each other, and every so often racism still rears it's ugly head
snakes3425 2 years ago
It really saddens me that innocent young girls were killed for no reason (like there would be a reason to do what happened). I know that those who killed and tortured the people during this era are going to have to answer to GOD someday if they aren't already burning in hell.
wmfnly 2 years ago
This brings me back to Freshmen year in High School!
MADDOG6400 2 years ago
I just noticed that the three girls age 14 where all born in April 18,24,and30. Six days apart from each other.
MegaBrownshuga 2 years ago
In that era, the worst crime committed was people choosing to turn a blind eye to the suffering Jim Crow was causing. People tried to justify it by saying they were preserving their heritage and custims from an unwanted "invasion" but all they were doing was preserving a system that had corrupted their very souls, a system that needed to die and should've died in 1865.
In the end this tragedy should serve as a reminder where bigotry will always end, and that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
snakes3425 2 years ago 9
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RIP Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley and Carol Robinson. May those four angels rest in eternal peace.
Corridoamor 2 years ago 2
WHATS THIS SONG CALLED????
TalbotConnie 2 years ago
The song is Birmingham Sunday by Joan Baez
FisherAliceMae 2 years ago
Birmingham Sunday was made famous by Joan Baez-but it was written by Richard Farina.
faeryquene 2 years ago
the first time i heard this song was when my gr.12 english teacher was playing protest songs for us to study. . .and i have loved this sad and powerfull song since then. . .
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jazzyfayy1983 2 years ago
my class watched it and i'm white and almost everybody cried in the 2 black classes.thanx for posting this vidieo
chipmunklover125 2 years ago 9
you're very welcome.
PsychoticPrplFlower 2 years ago 2
i watched it to and i cried eventhow im white.
lovescorgis 2 years ago
Learn how to spell.
wmfnly 2 years ago
@chipmunklover125 As the great Michael joseph Jackson once said It don't matter if your black or white.
They took him as a joke until his death I hope it rings true as you remember black history!
RIP
skinnyminny25 11 months ago
@chipmunklover125 When i first saw this in History class when we were doing poems for this, i almost cried, and so did everybody else. Such a horrible story, RIP those little girls. ="(
PrincessMedia2011 8 months ago
@chipmunklover125 dont be so sorry, whites killed by them heavly outnumbered these 4. hwr, 4 less werfare to pay, and 85 new generations of african less (make children is the only thing they're able to do)
mattvlad3 5 months ago
@mattvlad3 iment that i ws in two bla k classes ond i had cried with everysingle person who was black
chipmunklover125 5 months ago
@chipmunklover125 yeah, i read the previous post, i know how it works with brainwashing. i tell you some facts about, read that, is true
mattvlad3 5 months ago
we watched this documentary in school today. im in 8th grade and we're learning about what happened and everything. right now im connecting the harlem renaissance, 4 little girls, the black kids who fought to go to school with white kids, mlk's i have a dream speech, all to eachother.
squidneypossum 2 years ago
I saw the documentary about this. This is so sad. Why do people have to be this cruel. I cried when I saw this I was only 16 when I watched this.
HannahRose11 2 years ago 2
the story of their death is very sad and unnessesary. like the church is the one place ppl feel safe and look what happens. very sad
Vonniesistah 2 years ago
This song is so moving...I first saw it during Social Studies, when we were learning about the Baptist Church Bombing. I can honestly say that when my teacher told us we were going to listent to a song about it i was not expecting anything very good, I mean which artist in their right mind would write and sing a song about a historical event
Joan Baez is now one of the best singers i have ever heard. I was shaking and had goose bumps by the end... this song brought tears to my eyes... thanks!
ImASingingGEM 2 years ago 3
I know I first listened to this song in social studies too and we watched the movie and i cried so much, and then yesterday we just went to birmingham, to the kelly inman park where we ate lunch and then we went in to the museum and then we got to go in the acutall 16th church, it was sad what happened but our nation is stronger because of it.
lackyboo 2 years ago 5
this is such a pretty songg...its so sad...
MillettLvr001 2 years ago
I've had to watch the documentary on this every year since 6th grade for black history month in my history class. It's really sad. I always feel bad for there families and friends.
singing525 2 years ago 2
what's the name of this song by joan baez or whtvr
luvamiluv 2 years ago
it's called Birmingham Sunday....
singing525 2 years ago 3
i saw a documentary type thing on this too and it was really sad. at times i felt like crying
we had read this book called The Watsons Go To Birmingham
it talks about the bombing towards the end of the book
its actually a really good book
luvamiluv 2 years ago
this is very sad that this really happened in the land we all know and love may God bless those poor children that died just because of their race it makes me sick. and those racest people call themselves christians but they didn't think that those kids were God's children to and Jesus died for EVERYONE and he loves EVERYONE!!!
sonkissed101 2 years ago 5
It's crazy because I didn't even know about these girls and the church at all. I watched in my history class and it was the first time I've ever seen it. I nearly cried seeing this movie. I have never been so sad in my life. Knowing that could have been a friend or a brother or sister of mine,just killed me. These girls will forever be missed ♥
xoxo Diava101
Diava101 2 years ago
OMG Im not crying! NOT NOT NOT!
snowconelove 2 years ago
this is so sad!!!!
oldbaldy34 2 years ago
"The victims weren't children, Children are little human beings, and that means white people. They were just little Niggers, and if there are four less niggers tonight I say good for who ever planted the bomb."
Rev. Connie Lynch, September 15th 1963
Of everything that happened that day, this statement stands out the most for me. That anyone, could be cruel enough to not only support the traitors who commited this crime, but to say the girls they killed had no right to live, is unforgivable
snakes3425 3 years ago 32
I've never heard of Rev. Connie Lynch, but I hope a special place in Hell is reserved for her. From her statement, she was a vile, contemptible hate monger.
mthivier 2 years ago
Connie Lynch was actually a man. What he said in the aftermath of the bombing was only the tip of the iceberg, his bigotry was so great he traveled the country giving speeches where he praised acts of brutality and encouraged mass murder and violence against everyone in the civil rights movement, be they marchers, organizers, or leaders.
snakes3425 2 years ago
@snakes3425 The fact that the demon who uttered those words, claimed to be a person of Faith, one who was thought of as a teacher of God's words, a person "of the cloth", makes vomit rise up into my throat. They above others should have known what God has said about all the creatures He created, and to try to take away from these beautiful girl's worth, makes them worse than satan himself.
Oreocremerocks 1 year ago 2
@Oreocremerocks
Connie Lynch wasn't unique among ministers, he was just one of the most flamboyant, and proof that even churches weren't immune to the venom that had poisoned the country at the time. I've seen pictures of old people, men, women and even children at Segregationist Protests, Klan Rallies, and Citizens Council Meetings holding signs with Bible Verses inscribe on them, or actually holding or reading from the Bible, using it to justify their cruelty.
snakes3425 1 year ago
@snakes3425 HEY! Im white! And i hate racism! Their black! Oh my god they
should NOT be killed! Your just racist! And what if one of those poor LITTLE HUMAN BEINGS was your little sister? Or even you? How would you feel? Pretty bad i think! Get the fuck off of youtube NO BODY wants your racism here! (and if it was a quote said by another person....then im sorry for what i said)
babbalouie23 1 year ago
@babbalouie23
It's a quote from another person, not from me. I found it in a book I have on the Civil Rights Movement: The Civil Rights Chronicle (pg. 253)
snakes3425 1 year ago
@snakes3425 Yea...then im sorry for what i said! I hope you can forgive me?
babbalouie23 1 year ago
@babbalouie23
We all make mistakes, just make sure to read my entire comment, I have absoltly no love for discrimination of any kind
snakes3425 1 year ago
@snakes3425 :) Will do! And i dont either!
babbalouie23 1 year ago
@snakes3425 You are evil just like the slime that planted those bombs. You think you're a Christian? You're NOT!! You are one of the many imps of Satan who are soon going to meet an end befitting anybody who uses God as a guise to do exactly what He speaks against. Racism of ANY kind is EVIL and of Satan. Hell fire awaits!!
Bok97 1 year ago
@Bok97
What part of it's a quote from a book (Civil Rights Chronicle pg. 253) can't people figure out
snakes3425 1 year ago
@Bok97 omg it was quote from abook learn to read just read the whole comment
mangosrock908 10 months ago
@snakes3425 You are so right. At first I was worried, I didn't see the quotes at the beginning, so I thought you were saying that in your opinion. I was like....ummm....racial?
GirL0vesDoom 10 months ago
what was wrong with the usa then we are the united states of america not the united white men of america this was the most dissapointing time in the world countries looked up to us and we did this
dotaboy3892 3 years ago 4
PsychoticPrplFlower your video of this song brought tears to my eyes as is fitting for both of the subject matter and Joan Baez's performance.
As someone who was nearly an adult when this whole incident happened those many years ago, I marvel at how calloused we then were as a nation and how much of the progress made back then was lost in the past 28 years.
PoetryMan11 3 years ago 3
the sadest part is having someone you know be related to one of the girls...god bless her
GYMNIST101 3 years ago
agreeing with horsegal90 she is right. For one of the girls it was her brithday. Those families did not deserve that to happen to them. All of the racist people that even think to do this shall be shuned. ='( those poor poor girls, listening to there families talk it was just so sad..and they don't even arrest all the guys that had to do with the bombing until 12 years later????? only 1 got arrested in that same year... plain sad =/
GYMNIST101 3 years ago 4
the only reason to that was because the people who were actually searching for them couldn't find them.. until then
Right? thats what my teacher said. and hes supposed to teach the truth so ... ther u go
luvamiluv 2 years ago
It's just horrible what a group of racist people can do... =/ Those girls didn't deserve to die, especially the poor girl who it was her birthday. I saw a documentary with their families speaking, and it was so depressing. Poor families...I would have been devastated. </3 Rest In Peace, all the people who were killed for the civil rights we have today.
horsegal90 3 years ago 2
May those girls rest in peace and be held in the arms of God. This world is cursed with vain, terrorists, and racists. Every person deserves a life no matter the color of their skin or thier race. Sadely some people fail to see below the surface of a persons skin and judge outamatically that they are people sent from Hell. Every person is the same no matter thier skin color.
xxjasleenxx 3 years ago 5
I saw this utterly shameful picture of a four year-old boy wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit. things like that bring tears to my eyes. :'(. just because you don't feel its necessary to be tolerant of a certain group DOES NOT give you the right to kill those within that group.
sigh. :'(
dudicalmuffins 3 years ago 4
It makes me ashamed to be a white man. God bless those beautiful girls.
Luca2352 3 years ago 4
A story about a woman(WHITE) who was killed by the KKK down there to march and help organize.The gunmen(KKK).If anybody knows of this woman, her name, please write me ...One of the gunmen was a government employee.There is a church with maybe some kind of monument where she was murdered off the highway.GOD BLESS US ALL.
365degrees 3 years ago 4
I beleve the woman you are refering to was Viola Luizzo
PsychoticPrplFlower 2 years ago 3
one of the best songs ever!!
08mzkween 3 years ago
Ku Klux Klan are evil. i've seen pictures of them and it makes me sick.
P.S., this song is beautiful!
doodles2141 3 years ago 18
this song is sad..its kind of shameful how grown men could be able to kill little children and not feel any remorse for it...this song is sad and depressing R.I.P gIRLS
sweetamani211 3 years ago 4
i was reading about those poor girls. things were so wrong back then r.i.p. girls
lashawn2be 3 years ago 4
we are watching 4 little girls in class ):
cojoiscrazy 3 years ago
us too so sad!
dudicalmuffins 3 years ago
omg... aww, that makes me wanna cry and at the same time kick the SHIZZ out of those killer(s). :(
R.I.P - The 4 women standing up for civil rights and of course freedom.
ambcr5 3 years ago 3
wen the one killer was in court he was proud that he killed those 4 girls i hope he rots in hell
ryukicksass 3 years ago 5
me too
lashawn2be 3 years ago
They were sick, sick people, Klu Klux Klan redneck pieces of Shit.
I'm so glad these lowlives are in the minority as a group, lets hope these little girls didn't die in vain, because racism is the biggest curse on earth, not religion.
nationalwavelength 3 years ago 6
we watched this in lit. class i respect the person very much who made this *fav's this vid*
Twap6 3 years ago
I really hope those 3 ugly motherfuckers are dead.
R.I.P. to all 4 girls
FreezaSama07 3 years ago 4
im with ya
Twap6 3 years ago
When I was a little girl my Dad made me hear that song
But I was too little to understand Still moving
I love it sad sad story but beautiful proof of faith
Thanx so much for posting this
Tori
Torifairy 3 years ago 3
What a sad story! I'm going to the Civil Right Museum & the Church next month.
*Denise McNair's father has a photo shop in Birmingham. He also has some of Denise things there as well.*
cooperyahoo 3 years ago 5
I live right near Birmingham, and went to the Civil rights museum which is right across from Kelly ngram Park and the church. Unfortunately the shurch was closed the day I went.
WOODSLD80 3 years ago
that was one of the most terrible things that i have ever seen in my life how can someone have that much hatred in their heart i wouldnt be able to live with myself if i ever killed little girls just because of their skin color !!!!at school we watched a video when we read the watsons go to birmingham and the video made me so angry and sad at the same time
CuteBlondie22 3 years ago 4
wanna learn more about birmingham type in kelly ingram park and see where it all went down were people were shot down water holeses and bitten up by dogs for no reason by the police check it out and pass it along and send me facts about your black history from your town because it's the same every where also type in birmingham jail and aee where dr. king was incarsonrated
daddylong25 3 years ago
i'm 26 yeats old and from birmingham,alabama and i live 3 minutes away from the church see all most everyday it has been restored now they build the civil right institue across the street it sits between 6 avenue and 8 avenue on the same block where hill school is that's where condeleeza rice attened school off 8 avenue that's where general colin powell's wife father founded parker high school it's well over 100 years old my city is so rich with african american history
daddylong25 3 years ago
i think this was so sweet we must keep history alive
Diamondnay 3 years ago
beautiful
unoalice 3 years ago
thank you for this b/c i need to do a project about this song. u made an awesome video.
skittlezlette85 3 years ago 4
yeah. i rad the watsons go to birmingham 1963. it was really good it lead me 2 this video.
cuttie1hottie1ladeen 3 years ago
I'm going to watch the 4 Little Girls documentary tomorrow in my class; we just finished The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963. such a great book! Thank you so much for this beautiful video. I'd never heard the song before, and wow-love it. Rest in peace Addie, Denise, Cynthia, and Carole. I won't ever forget any of you. I didn't know you, but I know you were just as precious to your families Joetta was to the Watsons.
notallwhowanderrlost 3 years ago 7
4 little girls is a very sad documentary i wonder how can whites be so cruel to black people?
PympHarD 3 years ago 13
yeah , i saw that today [ 5 /17 / 10 ]
lollipop1316 1 year ago
@PympHarD It is really sad, it's to teach us that black people aren't toys or pieces of garbage. They are living human beings that want to be respected.
petermullinvideos 1 year ago
such a good singer. such a sad event.
Khaza002 3 years ago 5
Very moving, and you used someone with the voice of an angel, who wrote the song. I actually was listening to this song the past few days.
unoalice 3 years ago 3
The song was written by Richard Farina. He was married o Joan Baez' sister Mimi.
MROSEN62 3 years ago
It sad.
khrisinfo 3 years ago 2
does anybody know the ending song in the documentary 4 little girls?
JewJitsuAttk 3 years ago
i don't but i am sure if you look it up on the internet u can find it.
skittlezlette85 3 years ago
this is freaking sad wat kind of person would freaking kill just to get props then get conficted and smile
blondeashley4141 3 years ago 7
This is a beautiful tribute to 4 Angels who deserved to live a long life. I first learned about Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson in junior high from a children's digest story. Rest in peace little princesses.
audie83 3 years ago 9
joan baez go !!!! Im reading the watsons go to birmingham and it is SO sad !!!! byron is a bad a**
lamaniso 3 years ago
Im reading the watsons go to birmingham and it is SO sad! I thought at first that Joetta Watson dies in the church! Thank god kenny saved her! R.I.P. Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Colins, an the other two who i forgot thier names. So yeah. ROCK ON!!! I love Joan Baez!
gonnabeanactress 4 years ago 3
Joan Baez has a God-given talent with that voice. The beautiful and haunting song "Birmingham Sunday" was written by Joan's late brother-in-law Richard Farina. He was married to Joan's late younger sister Mimi Baez.
audie83 3 years ago 3
we just finished reading that in junior high but it was sad yeah then we learned about birmingham sunday.
8912KeigoAsano 3 years ago
now you know how gay people feel when we are presented with similar discrimination... all hatred and bigotry should end.
rawenergy32 4 years ago 3
I just read the book the Watsons go to Birmingham 1963 about a week ago and watched the movie just today...I can't believe this all really happened. it made me want to cry so bad.
xXrockXmusicXx 4 years ago 2
A classic song, and an absolutely beautiful montage! Well done!
jamesjeffreypaul 4 years ago 2