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Lisa’s older sister, Denise, was one of the four little girls killed in the Ku Klux Klan’s 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Lisa will share her family’s story of survival after this horrific and high-profile loss that marked a seminal moment in the civil rights movement.
The narrative is inspired by the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. The novel draws inspiration from the tragic event of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, infusing historical significance into the storyline and prompting readers to contemplate the impact of such pivotal moments in history.
An account of one journalist’s search for the long-buried truths that could bring killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham, and the Mississippi Burning case.
Her father would keep driving when she’d ask if they could stop at the 16th Street Church, the site of the 1963 bombing that killed four small girls. ... Mount Olivet Baptist Church shaped the ...
JAZZIZ Essentials is a series that explores the stories of songs, artists and events that gave rise to jazz. In this episode, we talk about John Coltrane’s “Alabama.”. This Civil Rights Movement elegy was originally recorded in 1963. It was written by Coltrane in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a tragic event that ...
Judas and the Black Messiah. Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons. 36 votes. This intense historical drama delves into the betrayal and assassination of Fred Hampton, the charismatic chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, at the hands of an FBI informant.
A march held in memory of the four girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama; the march was sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality and was held in Washington, D.C., in 1963. (more)
