Sarah Collins Rudolph narrowly escaped death in 1963 when the KKK bombed a church in Alabama, killing four little girls — one of them her sister, Addie May Collins.
Ms. Rudolf came to East Harlem to visit a school named for her 14-year-old sister and to meet with Mayor Adams. Rudolph recalled her own brush with death on that awful Sunday morning. She’s known as the “fifth” little girl.
That bombing by the Ku Klux Klan also killed two 14-year-olds: Corole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Denise McNair was 11.
Sarah Collins Rudolph admitted recent racist-inspired massacres in Buffalo and other cities bring back haunting memories.
“Sometimes I just sit back and cry to think how things haven’t changed since the killing of these girls, the same thing going on over and over again and it really hurts me,” Rudolph said.
“Addie Mae’s mother gave us the right to use her name,” said Judy Edwards, the board president of Addie Mae Collins Community Service Center. “And we’ve done our best for them to be proud of us.”
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Mayor Adams Wants to Increase Home Ownership in NYC
The City has a great article on how Mayor Adams wants to increase the disturbingly low homeownership rates New Yorkers, and New Yorkers of Color, in particular.
To read the full article, see:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/7/18/23220773/eric-adams-homeownership