Four Little Girls . Newcity Chicago . 10-27-97

Four Little Girls

DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee

REVIEWED: 10-27-97

Lee's first documentary, an HBO production, is worthy work with can't-miss emotional material: the story of the lives shattered when a pipe bomb killed four young girls in a Birmingham, Alabama, church in 1963 at the height of the battle against civil rights in the South. Lee assembles witnesses to a crime that was intended to put an end to integration in Birmingham, as well as family members and cultural figures such as Walter Cronkite, Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby to comment on the broader implications of the terrorist murder of the four children. A shoo-in for Oscar consideration.

--Ray Pride

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