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Virgil Lamar Ware
15 Sep 1963
Birmingham, AL
A-student Virgil Ware, 13, was riding on the handlebars of his brother's bicycle, excitedly planning a paper route. Neither had heard about the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing earlier that day.
Two white youths, inflamed by a segregationist rally, drove by on a motor scooter decorated with Confederate flags and shot him. |