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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is partnering with The Ballard House Project to host a program highlighting the history of individuals and organized groups who worked to pursue the right to vote ...
Family and friends gathered Saturday to remember the life of Bishop Calvin Woods who was a steadfast voice for justice in ...
It sits just west of the Civil Rights District, which encompasses about 30 square blocks that include routes for demonstrations, including the 1963 Children’s March.
Bishop Calvin Woods Sr., distinguished Birmingham Civil Rights leader and longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Norwood ...
Birmingham civil rights leader Bishop Calvin Woods Sr., the longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Norwood who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth during ...
And the church’s venerable yet worn and aged neighbor — the 33-year-old Birmingham Civil Rights Institute — is months into pondering a plan for restoration and revival.
While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South - from the bombings, riots and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that ...
Barry McNealy, a historian with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, joined the CBS 42 Morning News to discuss the importance of Juneteenth.