Johnnie Robinson – The Birmingham Post-Herald Article, “Racial Cost: Children Pay Price So Far”

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September 19, 1963 article from the Birmingham Post-Herald examining the impact of Birmingham’s racial violence on children and adolescents. The article discusses several young people injured, killed, or charged with crimes amid racial unrest, including victims of the September 15 bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other incidents occurring during the same period.

The article identifies Johnnie Robinson as another victim of the city’s racial conflict and reports that he was fatally shot by police after running when ordered to stop. The article incorrectly gives Robinson’s age as 18; other primary records establish that he was 16 years old. The discrepancy should be retained as part of the historical newspaper record rather than silently corrected in the transcription or description.