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Antioch Baptist Church (1926), 956 W. 9th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio [4] Trinity Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama Harmony Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
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. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil Rights District.
Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as "Dynamite Bob", [1] was a white supremacist terrorist convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.
Watts Street Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in the Trinity Park neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. The congregation is member of American Baptist Churches USA and the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists. The church has been historically progressive, promoting civil rights, the ordination of women, and LGBTQ ...
The roots of Fountain Street Church date to 1824 when the region's original Baptist mission established itself to convert the Ottawa Native Americans. A lengthy history of institutional squabbles between themselves and other area Baptists eventually culminated in the two factions' reunion in 1869 to create Fountain Street Baptist Church (so named for the building they erected on the east side ...
On June 18, 1960, a monument was dedicated at the site to commemorate the restoration of the Aaronic priesthood. The 12-foot-high (3.7 m) carnelian granite monument includes a bronze relief by artist Avard Fairbanks, depicting John the Baptist conferring the priesthood on Smith and Cowdery. [8] [9] LDS meetinghouse on the site shortly before ...
Teens aren't just sneaking quick glances at their phones during class.They're spending an average of 1.5 hours on them every school day, with 25% of students logging on for more than two hours ...
John H. Cross Jr. (January 27, 1925 – November 15, 2007) was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist. He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of the church's racially motivated bombing in 1963.