Lessons from Birmingham: 60 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

On Sept. 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham , Ala. This week , the city is remembering one of the darkest chapters in civil rights history.

Carolyn McKinstry , 15 at the time, retraces her footsteps through the church that day .

Survivors say there are lessons for the country today in a climate where politicians are seeking to whitewash racist history.

Racially-motivated bombings continued in Birmingham , Alabama , nicknamed " Bombingham " for the sheer number of attacks on Black homes, churches, and businesses that went unpunished.

The FBI determined that four members of a local KKK klavern known as the "Cahaba River Bridge Boys " were responsible for the bombing.

The first prosecution didn't come until 1977 ; two more in the early 2000s ; the fourth killer died.

There are intimate pictures of the Rev. Martin Luther King , Jr., including the day he was released after writing his famous "letter from Birmingham jail" Lisa McNair was born a year later , and says she still can't imagine what her parents went through.

"We have to pay attention. We have to know our history," she says.