Tag: 1963

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times A phone rings inside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull lifts up the receiver. The...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing was not the only tragedy in Birmingham on Sept. 15, 1963. Four girls --...

-Rev. Arthur Price, pastor Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, The Birmingham Times, Sept. 14.

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson will be the keynote speaker in Birmingham on Sept. 15 during a memorial service...

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...