By David Pendered Jan. 13 – The Okefenokee Swamp was chosen over the site of the fatal bombing at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church and 17 other sites for nomination to the United Nation’s World Heritage List. Advocates of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge helped sway the site-selection committee, which is overseen by the US […]
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Birmingham seeks to revive civil rights districtBy David Pendered Dec. 9 – Birmingham is soon to start retooling 2.5 miles of roads and sidewalks in its Civil Rights District in hopes of sparking economic renewal. Plenty of redevelopment opportunities exist in the neighborhood surrounding the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls died in a terrorist bombing in 1963, and the […]
