Kids in B'ham 1963

We were kids in Birmingham in 1963. That tumultuous year transformed the nation and shaped our lives. Request an interview with one of us. Use our lesson plans.

[Kids in B'ham 1963 @KidsInBham1963]

As the Sept 15th anniversary of the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church approaches, media outlets may request a list of people, Black + white, who witnessed The Year of Birmingham, 1963. Email [email protected] for interview contacts. @missjanaepierre @NPR

[Edward Bowser @etbowser]

I've been to many NABJ conferences over the years but it hits different when it takes place in your city. #NABJ23

[Kids in B'ham 1963 @KidsInBham1963]

A well-deserved Pulitzer Prize to Kyle Whitmire of @aldotcom. If you haven’t yet read @WarOnDumb’s winning series, you’ll want to! See link in the attached article.

[Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb]

I’m still not convinced this is real, but I’m so grateful. https://t.co/0OHyF8sFV7

[Rebecca Griesbach @greezbock]

At the Historic Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was bombed three times by white supremacists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. McAdory HS chemistry students are here to learn about environmental racism that still exists in the Collegeville community today.

[Kids in B'ham 1963 @KidsInBham1963]

Kids in Birmingham 1963 is proud to be part of this collaboration with FHI 360 and Jefferson County Memorial Project. Helping people talk about race is a pathway to equity. @fhi360 @JCMP

[Howell Wechsler @HowellWechsler]

Check out this terrific blog by @fhi360's @EktaSaksena & Van Do on lessons learned from our work with Jefferson County Memorial Project & @KidsInBham1963 to advance #racialequity in Jefferson Cty, AL. #FHI360US
https://t.co/6D8StoIB63 via @fhi360

[Loni Love @LoniLove]

Rest well Mr. Smith

[FHI 360 @fhi360]

To spark conversations about #racialjustice, the Jefferson County Memorial Project & @KidsinBham1963 partnered with us on a communications campaign & today we unveiled a new mural in Birmingham.
💬 Join the conversation:
https://t.co/VzLgwEPleW
#FHI360US

[David W. Blight @davidwblight1]

Teachers: if given the platform, what would you say are your greatest challenges, fears, or thrills in teaching American history today? On Nov. 4-5 we are sponsoring a big conference at Yale, "Teaching Race and Slavery in the American Classroom." Live-streamed. Stay tuned.

[Alabama Humanities Alliance @ALHumanities]

A well-deserved honor for Mr. Fred Gray, a leading legal scholar and a civil rights icon. We’re proud, always, to call him one of our Alabama Humanities Fellows! #presidentialmedaloffreedom

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Slavery, segregation, voting rights, gerrymandering and abortion all have one thing in common:

“States rights.”

Since the first draft of the constitution, “Leave it up to the states” has been code for “Leave it up to the racists.”

[Sherrel Stewart @4newzscoop]

Good journalism should be recognized. I so happy to see that people throughout the state and around the country acknowledge the hard work of the entire team at The Birmingham Times.

[Les LeMieux, Sr @leslsenior]

I was today years old when I learned Abraham Lincoln planned to exile all the Confederate Leaders after the Civil War and upon his death Andrew Johnson reversed course and pardoned them all...
Which is one reason it took over 100 yrs before Civil Rights Legislation was passed...

[Kids in B'ham 1963 @KidsInBham1963]

Kids in Birmingham 1963 https://t.co/AznDezHDhF

[Kids in B'ham 1963 @KidsInBham1963]

Let’s teach this real history: "And what is it that we want to do? Why, it is, within the limits imposed by the Federal Constitution, to establish white supremacy in this state." https://t.co/X3CLdSW7LQ via @mgmadvertiser @ALHumanities

[Brian Lyman @lyman_brian]

New: Giles v. Harris is the most important Supreme Court case you’ve never heard of. This is the epic tale of the Montgomery man at the center of the case, and the untold story of Black southerners’ fight against the rise of the South’s Jim Crow regimes. https://t.co/m9MITB9Xsj

[Kids in B'ham 1963 @KidsInBham1963]

Click HERE https://t.co/RciPSEgVUB for a NEW STORY: Pam Powell says she was born into a caste system in which African Americans were seen as subordinate or peripheral—if they were seen at all, and she didn’t question the only world she knew until years later.

[vjphoto @vjonesphoto]

@lyman_brian Lisa is a force! 👏👏👏

[Brian Lyman @lyman_brian]

Senate committee is holding a hearing on a bill banning "divisive concepts" in history. Lisa McNair, the sister of one of the four little girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, is up at the podium speaking in opposition to the bill. #alpolitics

[Rebecca Griesbach @greezbock]

This story started out as a look-back at what our state legislators learned about Alabama History. Then Benita, the kind librarian in this photo, led me down a different rabbit hole.

https://t.co/3up2GzrFrD

[AL STATE NAACP @alstatenaacp]

The hearing will be livestreamed. You can access that stream by visiting this page: https://t.co/bxbTYQQfl3.

Then enter the following information:
Location: Room 206
Committee: State Government
Meeting: State Government – 02/23/2022