Carole Robertson Day was killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963. She was 14 years of age at her death and she was at the church preparing to march with other youth that day for civil rights. Her mother was the Regional Director for the Southeastern region. Born April 24, 1949, Carole Rosamond Robertson was the third child of Alpha and Alvin Robertson. Her older siblings were Dianne and Alvin. Her father was a band master at an elementary school, and her mother was a librarian. She was an avid reader and straight-A student who belonged to Jack and Jill of America. Carole was also active in the Girl Scouts, the Parker High School marching band and science club. She attended Wilkerson Elementary School where she sang in the choir. Carole grew up in Birmingham’s Smithfield community, developed in the early 1900s as a neighborhood for prominent Black professionals. Many homes in the district were designed by the notable Black architect Wallace A. Rayfield. Robertson took lessons in tap, ballet and modern dance, at the Smithfield Recreation Center’s auditorium every Saturday afternoon. She was buried at Shadow Lawn Cemetery, but her remains were moved to Greenwood Cemetery in 1974, to be interred near her father's. She shares space on a monument in the cemetery with 3 other girls that were killed. The Carole Robertson Center for Learning in Chicago is named in her memory.