Sixty years ago, a cultural revolution was taking place in Birmingham. On April 3, 1963, a group of activists was arrested for attempting to eat at segregated lunch counters. The Rev. Dr. Martin ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – As a teenager growing up in Philadelphia, Barnett Wright learned about the bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other seminal events in the civil rights ...

On Friday, September 15, a remembrance of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four Black girls was held at the 16th Street Baptist Church to stand in solidarity with those still affected by ...

First Stage Children s Theater presents The Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963, a play that s based on the book by Christopher Paul Curtis. First Stage Children’s Theater presents “The Watsons Go To ...

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 ...

Correspondent photos / Sean Barron Chris Stanley, an eighth-grade history teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Youngstown, has an emotional moment of reflection in the 16th Street ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Theatre Tuscaloosa will present The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963, December 6-15 ...

Related video above: 8 powerful Martin Luther King Jr. quotesBirmingham jailhouse logbook pages, signed multiple times by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., are up for auction for the first time.The logbook ...

Black History Month is a prime time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis, TN. What better way to honor this historical event than by attending the ...

Turning point of the civil rights movement. Nineteen sixty-three was the pivotal year of the civil rights movement. In a city named Birmingham, where little of note had happened before and nothing ...