Vernon Patrick led efforts to keep Birmingham schools open during desegregation efforts and built a national securities ...

In the months before six Black children were murdered on a single day in Birmingham, Alabama, the city emerged as a flashpoint for increasingly tense confrontations between civil rights activists and ...

Former United Nations ambassador, Congressman and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrate the 1963 civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, turned 94 this year ...

A grieving relative is led away from the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. Four black girls were killed and at least 14 others were injured, ...

The small, brown woman in a sequined black dress and suede high heels mounted the stairs to the megachurch’s curved stage, leaning on the arm of her husband. The silver cross around her neck glinted ...

September 15, 1963 – A dynamite bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins ...

The reenactment of the 1963 Children's Crusade marches at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Birmingham brought foot soldiers, old and young, together to renew their commitment to fighting for ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The 16 th Street Baptist Church is an iconic landmark with its blue neon sign, dramatic stained-glass windows, and imposing twin bell towers. It was here on Sept. 15, 1963 that a Ku ...

The case haunted Birmingham for years. Four black girls in Alabama had been killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church — a crime that shocked the country and helped fuel the civil ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama Hundreds of people black and white filled an Alabama church that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago to mark the anniversary of a blast that killed four little girls. The ...