Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

BAPTIST church buildings; CIVIL rights movements; SOCIAL groups; VIOLENCE; BAPTISTS

BIRMINGHAM (Ala.); ALABAMAReport Available

Information about the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama is presented. It mentioned that it served as the primary meeting place for the community and part of the planning and events of the civil rights activities in the 1960s. It stated that it was the first Colored Baptist Church in the state in 1873. The violence enacted by members of Ku Klux Chan in the church on September 15, 1963 is also highlighted.