Tag: 1963

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...