The lone survivor of a Civil Rights era church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is in Carbondale to share her experiences from that traumatic event.
As a 12-year-old in 1963, Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing that became a galvanizing moment in the Civil Rights movement.
The blast took the lives of her 14-year-old sister and three young friends.
Rudolph, who lost sight in her right eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body, will be part of a free event at Guyon Auditorium in Morris Library Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Rudolph is the author of a book “The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.”
