Sentences with phrase «bombing black churches»

Not exact matches

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

Five months later, white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham — and 4 little black girls were killed.

«The bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and the subsequent death of four little girls who were there for Sunday school, shocked the nation with the violent lengths to which racists would go to disrupt and destroy black churches, and by extension, black communities.»

You know, where black churches were bombed?

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which killed four young girls, the Chicago - based artist photographed black children in Alabama, who are the same age as the victims were.

Marking the 50th anniversary of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the photography project pairs locals from Birmingham's black community, young people about the age of the four little girls killed in the blast with a counterpart 50 years older, the age the girls would have been if they had survived.

Some well - known works are included, such as Robert Gober's pale yellow wallpaper for a youngster's bedroom, its pattern alternating images of a peacefully sleeping white man with a lynched black man; and, Kerry James Marshall's elegy to the murderous 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., his hometown, when he was 7.

Artists Conversations: Bradford Young by Sara Salovaara BOMB Magazine «Black Nationalism, rural Brooklyn, faces, and monoliths» encapsulates the subjects and symbols of filmmaker Bradford Young «s «Bynum Cutler,» a three - screen video installation on view at Bethel Tabernacle AME Church, the «God» in the recent exhibition «Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn.»

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.