On a tense Sunday afternoon in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, a 16-year-old African-American male named Johnny Robinson lost his life. The city was a powder keg of racial unrest, reeling from the morning's bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four young Black girls. In the turmoil that followed, Robinson was with a group of friends near a gas station when a car of white teenagers drove by, shouting racial slurs and waving a Confederate flag. The exchange escalated,
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