On the Sunday morning of September 15, 1963, Sarah Collins and her sister, Addie Mae Collins, were in the Ladies Lounge in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church. The sisters, along with three other girls, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair were preparing for the Youth Service program and then an explosion happened.
In recent FWIS newspaper issues, articles were written about the World War II Museum in New Orleans, the Red Ball Express, and the U.S. Army 761st Tank Battalion. In the latter article, I asked that you stay IN Touch because there would be another story coming. That story is here and ready to be told. It is about villages in the Netherlands and their liberation from the enemy during World War II.
August 21 was hot and humid in Fort Wayne. With that type of weather in play, I decided to meet the walking caravan that had convened by Douglas and Calhoun streets at the African/African American Historical Society Museum across from Friendship Baptist Church.
