On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded outside the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham and killed four young girls who had just finished Sunday School. You are invited to gather as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of that tragedy.
Paul Beverly spent a week at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute this past summer. He will be talking about the church bombing and putting it into the larger context of the civil rights movement in Birmingham.
Join the discussion of how the murders of four innocent people brought the message of the civil rights movement into our living rooms in a very real way and began to make an impact on the larger population who may have been previously uninvolved and aloof.
The program will begin at 4:00 PM on Sunday, September 15 at the Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church, 271 Lincoln Ave, Ridgewood, NJ. For more information email corneroffice@rcrcnj.org or call the church office at 201-445-1832.
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