(The Root) — In 1988, not long after civil rights lawyer, and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder, Morris Dees won a case against the Ku Klux Klan that bankrupted one of the hate group’s major arms ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — This Black History Month, students at South Hampton K-8 School in Birmingham had the chance to take part ...
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The Birmingham church that changed the world—and still welcomes visitors today
Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church still welcomes visitors with outstretched arms and a spirit of hope.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) -- The latest chapter in U.S. civil rights history was concluded in an Alabama courtroom Wednesday when a jury found a former Ku Klux Klansman guilty of first-degree murder ...
September 15, 1963 - A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in the ...
Sixty years ago, four little girls in Birmingham paid the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom in the United States. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, on Thursday hosted a “Terri Talks” ...
In his lifetime, Martin Luther King Jr. gave more than 2,500 speeches, but one of his most famous works didnt take place on a stage with thousands of people but in the solitude of imprisonment.In 1963 ...
Rosetta “Rose” Hughes never forgot the shift she worked at Birmingham’s University Hospital in the fall of 1963. Klansmen had bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church downtown. A little girl was brought ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bomb exploded in the basement of a Birmingham, Alabama, church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four young Black girls. Today, a ...
BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 3 -- A judge ruled today that former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry is mentally competent to stand trial on murder charges in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four ...
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights ...
A bomb exploded in the basement of a Birmingham, Alabama, church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four young Black girls. Today, a survivor of the blast continues to tell her story. In a commemorative event ...
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