BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) -- A ceremony Saturday marking a seminal event in the civil rights movement -- a church bombing that killed four black girls -- drew native daughter Condoleezza Rice, a friend of one of the victims...

...Rice made her sympathies known while visiting the Alabama campus on Friday. "The Tide is going to roll, roll, roll!" she told several hundred cheering fans during a speech.

Rice spent her first 13 years in Alabama, and her 55-hour homecoming visit, which ends Sunday, has brought back a flood of memories.

On Friday, for the first time in 39 years, she entered the Brunetta C. Hill Elementary School, where she was a pupil from grades 4-6. She seemed delighted that she could still remember the location of her classrooms and the library in the aging two-story building...