Tag: 16th Street Baptist Church
Thomas Blanton, KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church, dies
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing...
Birmingham Street Will Not Be Renamed Black Lives Matter Blvd.
The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham City Council will not consider a resolution that seeks to rename a portion of Sixteenth Street North to Black Lives...
Korey Wise of ‘Exonerated 5’ to speak at 16th Street Baptist...
For The Birmingham Times
Korey Wise is a survivor. Seventeen years after serving an unlawful prison sentence and being illegally coerced into confessing to a...
16th Street Baptist Church added to list of protected sites
Times staff report
The National Park Service (NPS) has added the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to its network of protected sites and programs.
The historic church...
Former VP Joe Biden Speaks at 56th Anniversary of 16th Street...
By Bill Barrow
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Visiting a black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan during the civil rights era, Democratic presidential...
New Memorial for 16th St. Baptist Church on Sun, 56 Years...
By Nathan Watson
bhamnow.com
On Sunday, Sept. 15, the 56th anniversary of the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that killed four little girls...
‘Bridging Religious Divides’ Conversation June 17 At 16th Street Baptist Church
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
A conversation on bridging racial and faith divides from religious perspectives will be held Monday, June 17 at the Sixteenth...
Funeral for Chris McNair set on Friday, May 17
The Birmingham Times
The funeral for Jewell Christopher (Chris) McNair will be held Friday, May 17 at 11 a.m. in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
Chris McNair, father of girl killed in church bombing, dies at...
The Birmingham Times
Jewell Christopher (Chris) McNair, the father of one of the four young girls killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist...
Congressional leaders in Birmingham for Civil Rights Pilgrimage
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Many of Alabama’s political leaders, locally and nationally, gathered Friday in Birmingham for the 26th annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage....
