Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Website. Official Website. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the events and actions of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and others of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The Institute is located in the Civil Rights District ...
The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument is a United States National Monument in Birmingham, Alabama established in 2017 to preserve and commemorate the work of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and other Civil Rights Movement events and actions. The monument is administered by the National Park Service. [2]
Added to NRHP. May 24, 1984. Kelly Ingram Park, formerly West Park, [ 2] is a 4 acres (1.6 ha) park located in Birmingham, Alabama. It is bounded by 16th and 17th Streets and 5th and 6th Avenues North in the Birmingham Civil Rights District. The park, just outside the doors of the 16th Street Baptist Church, served as a central staging ground ...
October 19, 2006. The Birmingham Civil Rights District is an area of downtown Birmingham, Alabama where several significant events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s took place. The district was designated by the City of Birmingham in 1992 and covers a six-block area.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the ...
Designated ARLH. June 16, 1976 [ 1] The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Birmingham Campaign – Civil Rights Movement Archive; A Film on the Letter from Birmingham Jail; Birmingham Campaign – M. L. King Research Institute at Stanford University; Birmingham Civil Rights Movement – Birmingham march / riots of the 60s. Life magazine May 17, 1963, p. 26, at Google Books – Moore's Birmingham photographs