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Birmingham’s Angelyn Lyles Reflects on 3 Separate Cancer Battles, City History

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times When doctors told Angelyn Lyles she had cancer 18 years ago, she had no fear. “I’m not going anywhere until it’s...

Birmingham To Commemorate 60 Years Since Pivotal 1963

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times The city of Birmingham on Wednesday announced yearlong activities to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights movement. Mayor...

Bishop Jim Lowe was 11 at Time of Church Bombng. Here’s...

kidsinbirmingham1963.org Kids in Birmingham 1963 was created during the 50th anniversary of the “Year of Birmingham,” a turning point in America’s struggle for Civil Rights. This...

Gov. Kay Ivey Apologizes to Bombing Survivor of Sixteenth Street Church

By Jay Reeves Associated Press Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has apologized to a survivor of a racist 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls, calling...

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...

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...

56 years ago this month, the children of Birmingham helped change...

By Pat Byington bhamnow.com On May 2, 1963, thousands of children in Birmingham, trained in the tactics of nonviolence, marched throughout the city, calling for desegregation....

In New Book ,‘Fifth Little Girl’ Describes First Hand Account of...

By Sarah Collins Rudolph  This is the opening chapter of “The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (The Sarah...

Sarah Collins Rudolph revisits 16th Street Baptist Church and recalls the...

By Ariel Worthy The Birmingham Times A group of more than 20 people sat recently in the sanctuary of the 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown...

Area Students Complete BCRI program detailing city’s role in US history

By Erica Wright  The Birmingham Times Twenty students from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Legacy Youth Leadership Program (LYLP) graduated Sunday as docents and interns.  The...

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