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Faith Chapel is a non-denominational, Christian, megachurch located in Birmingham, Alabama. The congregation, though largely African American, also consists of a variety of individuals from various ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. The church has two campuses: their dome campus in which the main services are held, and their older campus in ...
Companies based in Birmingham, Alabama (5 C, 88 P) Pages in category "Organizations based in Birmingham, Alabama" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, Christian theologian, and investigative journalist. [1] He is a graduate of Santa Clara University.He and his wife, Shelley Douglass, founded the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker house in Birmingham, Alabama.
But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4667-8. Fallin, Wilson (July 1997). The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm. New York: Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-2883-4.
John Grenier, Republican politician in Alabama; Art Hanes, mayor of Birmingham; Gil Hill, Detroit, Michigan city council president and actor; Perry O. Hooper, Sr., 27th chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court; born in Birmingham in 1925; resided in adult life in Montgomery; Bernard Kincaid, mayor of Birmingham; Michael Landsberry, Marine and ...
On September 19, 1902, a stampede occurred at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, resulting in the deaths of 115 people. At the time of the crush, 3,000 people were gathered to hear Booker T. Washington address the National Convention of Negro Baptists. The stampede occurred after the end of Washington's speech, when someone ...
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama.The church served as headquarters from 1956 to 1961 for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), which was led by Fred Shuttlesworth and active in the Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement.
A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in The Birmingham [Alabama] News, [1] on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations taking place in the area at the time. In the letter, they took issue with events "directed and led in part by outsiders," and they urged activists to engage in local ...