Birmingham church bombing victims would now be elderly women.

Evidence

The end. 1963, but still burning. My darkening girl lies beside me, her tiny chest barely registering breath. … Had they lived beyond that morning, all the other explosions shattering Birmingham—even some who called it home called it Bombingham—three of the girls would be seventy, the other sixty-seven. Somebody’s babies. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1071

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s surrounding argument about structural racism — the bombing as an event whose victims’ ages make the nearness and ongoingness visceral.