Former Attorney General Bill Baxley's 'Kiss My A**' Letter To Ku Klux Klan ...
In 1970, shortly after being elected Attorney General of Alabama, 29-year-old Bill Baxley reopened the 16th Street Church bombing case -— a racially motivated act of terrorism that resulted in the deaths of four African-American girls in 1963 and a ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Letters of 16th Street Baptist Church bomber on display in Birmingham
The personal letters of the man convicted for his involvement in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing are now part of the Birmingham Public Library's archive collection.www.myfoxal.com
Israeli diplomat visits 16th St. Baptist Church
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The four African-American girls killed in the infamous bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church downtown in 1963 were honored today by the deputy foreign minister of Israel, Daniel Ayalon. The diplomat placed a wreath near ...blog.al.com
As the anniversary approaches
City Hall. The girls who died in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing–Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley–are the focus of an exhibition going on now at Birmingham City Hall.weldbham.com
'Fifth little girl' remains relatively unknown in Birmingham, seeks role and ...
Sarah Collins Rudolph was in the bathroom with her sister Addie Mae Collins during Sunday School when a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The 1963 bombing killed her sister Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, ...blog.al.com
'Color' and Christ in America
Replacing the bombed out face of a white Jesus with a black Jesus, as the 16th Street Baptist church did after the bombing of their church in 1963, only renders more power to the white Jesus. I'm sure that over the years people have looked at the new ...www.huffingtonpost.com
International Film Conference Addresses Global Human Rights Issues
He says his year's event is homage to the 49th Anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham.www.apr.org
Thanksgiving 2012: Other Eating Feasts Around The World
Cakes with elaborately decorated tops represent domes of Orthodox churches and traditional soup is made with chickpea, to symbolize fertility, eggs for rebirth and green leaves representing Spring.www.huffingtonpost.com
Operation Lemonade
I spoke that night and went on to Birmingham the next morning and went to the 16th Street Baptist Church where those four little girls had been killed in a bomb getting us the right to vote. These girls never became teenagers. Never knew what high ...www.huffingtonpost.com
The exhibitionist as a civil rights hero
I remember the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that left Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley dead.washingtonexaminer.com
'Mockingbird' values stand the test of time
They'd have grieved the death of four little girls, murdered by a bomb planted in Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church. Although they'd never see Atticus play football as they'd dreamed, they'd have seen Bear Bryant integrate his football team at ...www.recordnet.com
ESSAY| Campaigning in the Commonwealth: A family tradition
My dad told of how all of this was taking place a week after Medgar Evers was killed in Mississippi- and a few months before a bomb in Birmingham would kill four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was a scary time to be on the front lines ...www.washingtonpost.com
Franklin Graham's Message of Inequality
15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed as an act of racially motivated terrorism.www.huffingtonpost.com
What's happening today in the north valley
Chico Veterans Day program: 12:30 p.m. doors open; 1 p.m. presentation on early days of WWII from bombing of Pearl Harbor to the U.S.www.chicoer.com
This Day, November 20 In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
The inquisitors were authorized to punish the convict, imprison them, confiscate their goods and disgrace them, to degrade even priests and hand them over to the secular arm - a church euphemism for condemning them to the heretic's stake. 1521: All ...www.clevelandjewishnews.com
Al Sharpton revvs up Black Caucus
Next year also will mark 50 years since Medgar Evers was gunned down for advocating civil rights, and since the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four little black girls. "Measure from 50 years ago to today, how ...www.capitalgazette.com
From the Archives: The Cold War
Tensions were high over the possible use of nuclear bombs. This illustration shows the predicted "Death Circles" in Omaha.blogs.omaha.com
The Interview: Springhill Hospital Chief Executive Officer Cecila Wallace
Four Black teen girls were killed in the racially motivated terrorist bombing at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, and more than 20 people were injured. Although she was just an inexperienced health technology student, Wallace was called on to ...www.fox10tv.com
An Interview with Bryan Stevenson: What is justice?
But it seems in the South that process of justice for crimes that were committed has been defined by the trials of civil rights cases like the bombers of the 16th Street Baptist Church. Is it too late here to have a process like they had in South ...blog.al.com
Alabama is a sweet home for visitors
Diagonally across the street from Kelly Ingram Park is the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church. Established as "The First Colored Baptist Church" in Birmingham in 1871, it was the site of the horrific September 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing that left four ...www.cjnews.com
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