The president of the largest Black denomination in the country said he wants to have a meeting with President-elect Donald ...
The Rev. Boise Kimber, an Alabama native, was installed as the president of the nation’s largest Black denomination on Jan.
In 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set their sights on what King referred to as “the ...
16th Street Baptist Church, a center location for civil rights meetings, was demolished by a dynamite bomb planted by KKK members, resulting in the death of 4 little Black girls, Addie Mae Collins ...
The oldest and largest black religious convention in the country, National Baptist Convention, kicked started its mid-winter ...
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham soon became home to the Wales Window of Alabama. In June, the University of Alabama at Birmingham's gospel choir visited the UK to nurture the ...
Exhibits detail some of the most significant events in Birmingham's history, including the tragic loss of life at the 16th Street Baptist Church during a bombing orchestrated by the Ku Klux Klan.
including the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the 16th Street Baptist Church, Kelly Ingram Park, the A.G. Gaston Gardens and the Fourth Avenue Business District, among other points of interest.
In September 1963, a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young black girls attending Sunday school. Activists who were ...