Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Competing For $150,000 Grant
By Michael Tomberlin
Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is among 20 national finalists competing for a $150,000 Partners in Preservation grant.
American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in collaboration with Main Street America, is focusing the annual Partners in Preservation campaign on sites that celebrate diversity and the fight for equality.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church became a part of civil rights history in 1963 when four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bombing.
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