16th Street Baptist Church bombing

The Origin of the black church is powerful,elegant,disciplined,and full of fortitude. Not only that, African Americans fought for the creation and development of the black church with protest, dedication, and everything they had. My definition of church is you, rather your a child, an adult, or a minister yourself, the church is always in you. The desire for the black church came from the origination of the master’s church, which deferred in many families. Later after slavery came to an end…

monkey bars, and behind a tree. Until, I saw two men talking behind the dark brown oak tree about bombing our local church I did not know who to tell, police or my pastor. That church is a symbol…

African-American singer, songwriter, and pianist Nina Simone was one of the most influential and involved civil-rights activists among the musicians of her time; her music being a blend of gospel, blues, folk, pop, and classical styles that became widely popular from her debut album, “Little Girl Blue”, in the late-1950s to her last LP, “You Can Have Him” in the 70s. Over the course of her career, Simone composed over 40 records that earned her two Grammy awards and 4 nominations for her…

As found in the 1963 “Love that Forgives” Sunday school lesson from the 16th Street Baptist Church, “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” The idiosyncratic history of African Americans in the U.S. is marked by experiences of racism, oppression, inequality, and adversity. These problematic experiences are critical in understanding how intergroup forgiveness for a…

people. This violence included bombings of black schools, churches and brutally hurt any white and black activists in the south. Knight Rides They were known for the KKK to…

Martin Luther King Jr is categorized as one of most well known advocates for non-violence demonstrations. As the leader of the civil rights movement, those of Gandhi, Socrates, and Paul influenced MLK’s ideas. As a Baptist pastor his movement was greatly influenced by the works of Christ and his Followers. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” he is writing to other clergy for his reasons of imprisonment, the purpose of Non-violent protest, and the direct actions occurring in Birmingham, Alabama.…

After the incident, the FBI started their investigations. A memo that was sent in 1965 to Edgar J. Hoover named four men as prime suspects of the bombing: Thomas Blanton, Robert Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Herman Cash. After many years of investigations, trials, and interviews, three of the four suspects were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, Cash died in 1994. These four men all had…

black churches that are within living history, most especially the bombing in 1963 of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four girls (Potts). Those four girls didn't even have a chance to get to live most of their lives because of this bombing. She continues by saying how shocked she was that the flag was still there after the massacre of the nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, but she was in even more shock that in 2015 the flag still…

symbol is a burning cross and members wore white hooded robes (History.com Staff, “Ku Klux Klan”). In 1925, they staged a march in Washington, D.C. during the Democratic National Convention where 40,000 Klansmen dressed in uniform walked through the streets (“Ku Klux Klan – History”). This revival only continued for around a decade until the KKK started to lose its influence because of the internal fighting for control, newspaper articles written about them, and sex scandals that occurred (“Ku…

“Ballad of Birmingham”, written by Dudley Randall, was written as a tribute to the four young girls that were fatally killed in the 1963 bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama. The four young girls that were killed in the bombing were, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14). The poem begins with a mother and daughter discussing a Freedom March that is supposed to happen that day. The mother refuses to allow…