(The Root) — Earnestine Thomas didn’t attend her senior prom before graduating in 1963 from Birmingham, Ala.’s A.H. Parker High School — there wasn’t one. Suggested Reading California’s ‘Unprecedented ...

September 15, 1963 – A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in the ...

(The Root) — The Rev. Jonathan McPherson went to jail for the first time in his life on Friday, April 12, 1963. It was Good Friday in Birmingham, Ala. Blacks on that day were defying an injunction ...

MAY 24, 1963-- U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy on this date sought an injunction to prevent Gov. George Wallace from fulfilling his promise of preventing black students from enrolling at The ...

Introduction -- Timeline -- Too great a burden to bear -- Highway in and halfway out -- The strong one -- The bomb heard 'round the world -- Life is but a vapor -- Four little coffins -- The aftermath ...

Folkways 5487 CDR copy exists-- accompanying booklet. Performer(s): Documentary of a mass meeting, including speeches by Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King ; songs performed by the Birmingham ...