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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls at an Alabama ...

When an initially blinded, and nearly lifeless, 12-year-old girl found in the rubble of a church bombing was wheeled onto the 10th floor of University Hospital in Birmingham nearly 60 years ago, one ...

Months before four little girls were killed in a Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that helped turn the tide of the civil rights movement in 1963, their friends and classmates bravely took to the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 15, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed ...

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 ...

Has it really been 50 years? It's not that my memories of 1963 are so vivid that it seems like yesterday. It doesn't. But neither does it seem that it was half a century ago when the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

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