Longtime Birmingham attorney J. Vernon Patrick Jr., who played a key role during the Birmingham school desegregation crisis in 1963 by helping organize white moderates and liberals to ensure schools ...

A grieving relative is led away from the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. Four black girls were killed and at least 14 others were injured, ...

September 15, 1963 – A dynamite bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins ...

Former United Nations ambassador, Congressman and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Months before four little girls were killed in a Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that helped turn the tide of the civil rights movement in 1963, their friends and classmates bravely took to the ...

The reenactment of the 1963 Children's Crusade marches at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Birmingham brought foot soldiers, old and young, together to renew their commitment to fighting for ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama Hundreds of people black and white filled an Alabama church that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago to mark the anniversary of a blast that killed four little girls. The ...

Jayne Mansfield made daily appearances by the pool at Homewood's Hollywood Country Club as she brought her nightclub act for an eight-night stint in May 1963. As she took to the stage the first night ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing that killed four African American girls during church services in 1963. September 15, 2013, marked the 50th anniversary of the bombing.