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They Know Not What They Do: The Bombing Of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Guideposts | Posted 03.22.2013 | Religion
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Boom! The floor swayed. Glass fell at my feet. Someone shouted, "Hit the floor!" I dropped, flat on the ground. Silence. Then a stampede of feet. Police sirens. I looked up. There was a hole in the stained-glass window where Jesus' face had been.

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The Music Of The Movement

Posted 07.30.2011 | Religion
Read More: Birmingham, Civil Rights Movement, Gospel Music, 16th Street Church, Martin Luther King, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Music and Religion, 2011 Freedom Ride, 16th Street Choir, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders, Religion News

In a church where four little girls lost their lives, angels still seem to be singing. Their songs are not of the pain left behind, but of freedom.

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Woman Recounts Bomb Memories From Historic Church

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Eugene "Bull" Conor, Segregation, While the World Watched, Carolyn McKinstry, Ku Klux Klan, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Black Southern Christians, Denise George, Civil Rights, While the World Watched Book, Religion News

By Greg Garrison Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala.(RNS) Carolyn McKinstry pointed to a doorway in the balcony of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...

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