On the morning of Sept 15, 1963, a Sunday, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair were killed by whiteness. They were young, 14 and 11 year old Black girls, assembled in the basement of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. It was dynamite that tore through the church stairs, punctured their small bodies, and burst the windows of cars and businesses nearly two blocks away. But it was the armed defence of whiteness that killed them. This was the third bombing in 11 days and one of the 50 bombs that shook the city between 1945 and 1963, each targeting a Black home, business, or church. And the violence was relentless. Within hours of the attack, two other Black children—Johnny Robinson, aged 16 years, and Virgil Ware, aged 13 years—were killed in the armed defence of whiteness.