- 16th Street Baptist Church. Fernando Rover Jr. ... There was the bombing at Sixteen Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was Youth Sunday.
- The 16th Street Baptist Church’s congregation began meeting in 1873. The current building, designed by Wallace Rayfield, was completed in 1911.
- The 16th Street Baptist Church was a staple in the Birmingham Negro community. Located a few blocks from Birmingham’s commercial district.
- This church first opened in 1911, though the force behind the church was first founded in 1873 (First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham). 16th Street Baptist...
- Yayın zamanı: 6 saat önceCongress of Racial Equality and members of the All Souls Church march in memory of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims on September 22, 1963.
- Once word spread about the bombing and the girls' deaths, people from all over the world contributed to a construction fund to repair the 16th Street Baptist Church.
- Statues of the 4 girls– Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Roberston and Cynthia Wesley– at Kelly Ingram Park in front of 16th Street Baptist Church.
- A witness identified Robert Chambliss, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, as the man who placed the bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
- 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.