16th Street Baptist Church Birmingham

16th St & 6th Ave, Birmingham , Alabama, United States - Phone: 205-251-9402
  • Traveler Rating 4.00
    12 reviews 7 travel blogs 26 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Religious site

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    6of 27 attractions in Birmingham

TravelPod Member Reviews16th Street Baptist Church Birmingham

  • Nice Church

    4

    steffie1112 0 contribution United States Mar 26, 2012

    I only got to see the church from the outside and didn't get to go inside. It was a nice place from what I saw, definitely something worth visiting if ever in Birmingham.

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    Day 2: Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Jackson

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    I got up at around 6AM this morning. I went to Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park in Montgomery. It's a very nice area with lakes and a huge theatre where they hold the Shakespeare Festival every year. A lot of people come here in the morning to jog around the park. When I finished here, I drove up Highway 65 N to Birmingham. It was a little dumpy here …

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    In Burmingham they love the guv'ner...

    RACHEL: Today we woke up early to go to Birmingham, Alabama. There, we saw the 16th Street Baptist Church and Kelly Ingram Park, a very emotional civil rights location. We went to a soul food place for lunch, but they didn't have fried catfish or fried ...

  • 2

    The Deep South

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    ... have had more time there.  Two hours was not enough.  The institute was constructed to sit right next to the 16th Street Baptist Church in reverence of the four girls who were killed in the bombing of the church in 1963.   The church ...

  • 3

    Downtown moving south

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    ... have to go visit yourselves, believe me, the exhibits are well done, so go. Back outside again, more history, the 16th Street Baptist Church is across the street, that's where four little girls were killed, sitting in their classroom on a ...

  • 4

    Art and Museums

    ... on human rights issues through its educational programs. The Civil Rights District includes Kelly Ingram Park and the historic 16th Street Baptist Church where much activity of the Civil Rights Movement took place. The Birmingham Museum of Art has an ...

  • 5

    Day 2: Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Jackson

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    ... so I came back to the car. It could've been a car back-fire, but you never know! Then I drove by the 16th Street Baptist Church, which was organized as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1963 it was the target of a racially motivated ...

  • 6

    Birmingham & Montgomery

    ... ;   Today we woke up early and drove over four hours to Birmingham, Alabama to visit Kelly Ingram Park and the 16th street Baptist Church.  Once we arrived, we ate lunch and then went on the Civil Rights Institute tour.  It was one of ...

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    Day 4: Birmingham/Montgomery

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    ... half hours, but it wasn't too bad because pretty much the entire bus slept the first 2 hours. Then we arrived at the 16th Street Baptist Church where we walked across the street to Kelly Ingram Park. It was really cool to see the actual place where black ...