Foot SoldiersDesign Contest
Other
Foot Soldier Grand Reunion
05/24/2013
The Civil Rights Activist Committee with a number of participants from across the city, state, and nation march from the 16th Street Baptist Church to the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
Foot Soldier Grand Revolution Parade
05/25/2013
The Civil Rights Activist Committee hosts the Foot Soldier Grand Revolution Parade from 16th Street baptist Church to Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
Baseball and Segregation in Sports Program
05/29/2013
Birmingham baron’s Exhibition Game
(Region Field)
Other
The National Forensics League National Convention
06/01/2013 - 06/30/2013
The Birmingham Convention Bureau hosts the National Forensic League National Convention’s debate tournament.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Youth
Safe Summer Street Activities
06/01/2013 - 06/30/2013
The Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference presents safe summer street activities.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
The Reconciliation Forum #2
06/01/2013 - 06/30/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts The Reconciliation Forum #2.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
Juneteenth
06/01/2013
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute hosts Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration marking the end of slavery in the United States.
@ 520 16th St N, Birmingham, AL 35203 (Birmingham Civil Rights Institute)
Art
Unseen, Unforgotten-The Civil Rights Photographs of the Birmingham News
06/01/2013 - 10/31/2013
The Birmingham Historical Society and Birmingham Public Library present “Unseen, Unforgotten-The Civil Rights Photographs of the Birmingham News”. Opening Reception November 3.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Anytown Alabama
06/02/2013 - 06/08/2013
Anytown Alabama is a wonderful opportunity for high
school students to develop leadership skills
that they bring back to their school and community.
We recruit student “delegates” from all over Birmingham so that every race,
gender, religion, school, neighborhood, immigration status and ability is
represented. Delegates are encouraged to participate in honest dialogue and
interactive learning about social justice issues. Students learn how to respond
to difficult real-life situations with kindness, courage, and respect.
For more information and the application:
http://www.ywcabham.org/anytownalabama/
(205) 322-9922 ext 180 • anytown@ywcabham.org
Early Acceptance Deadline: March 22
Official Deadline: April 15
Ongoing @ 309 23rd Street North. Birmingham, Alabama 35203 (Camp Hargis)
Other
A Continuing Conversation-Project Citizen
06/10/2013 - 06/30/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts A continuing Conversation-Project citizen.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Youth
Birmingham Pledge Teens Summit Leadership Training
06/13/2013 - 06/30/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts the teen summit leadership training.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
Stop the Violence Rally
07/01/2013 - 07/31/2013
The Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosts the stope the violence rally.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
Gun Buy Back
07/01/2013 - 07/31/2013
The Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosts a gun buy back.
@ 715 Mohican Cir. Birmingham, AL 35214 (St. Joseph Baptist Church)
Other
Men of Influence Luncheon
07/01/2013 - 08/31/2013
The National Business League, Inc. hoses the men of influence luncheon.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
A Continuing Conversation-Project Citizen
07/01/2013 - 07/31/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts A Continuing Conversation-Project Citizen.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Youth
Birmingham Pledge Foundation Teen Summit Leadership Training
07/01/2013 - 07/31/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts the Birmingham Pledge Teen Summit Leadership Training.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Film Theatre
Urban Bush Women Dance Troupe
08/01/2013 - 08/31/2013
The Cultural Alliance presents Urban Bush Women Dance Troupe – dance movements about race.
@ 1731 1st Ave N # 190, Birmingham, AL 35203 (Cultural Alliance)
Other
Birmingham Pledge Teen Summit Leaders Training
08/01/2013 - 08/31/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts the teen summit leaders training.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
We are the Teachers Seminar
08/01/2013 - 08/31/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts the national We are the Teachers Seminar on Civil Rights.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
Stop the Bullying: It’s a Choice
08/10/2013
The Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosts Stop the Bullying: It’s a Choice.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
Love and Anti-Violence Rally
08/10/2013
The Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosts the Love and Anti-Violence Rally.
(Kelly Ingram Park)
Art
Etched in Collective History
08/18/2013 - 11/17/2013
The Birmingham Museum of Art presents “Etched in Collective History”, an exhibition of 60 works by 30 artists who interpreted the 1963 church bombing and racial violence through photography, painting and sculpture.
@ 2000 8th Ave N Birmingham, AL 35203 (Birmingham Museum of Art)
Art
Etched in Collective History
08/18/2013 - 11/17/2013
Etched in Collective History presents several artists who interrogate, depict, and memorialize the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement inspired a number of artists to participate physically in marches and sit-ins, as well as creatively, through the act of making art. This exhibition acknowledges these artists, the generations that came after, and most importantly, the four young girls—Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley—who died in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing.
Museum Hours (Birmingham Museum of Art)
4 Little Girls. We Reflect. We Respond.
08/21/2013
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Sidewalk will host a free city-wide simultaneous screening of Spike Lee’s acclaimed film, 4 Little Girls, a documentary about the notorious bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. All places of worship in the Birmingham metro area will be invited to participate in this unique and meaningful event.
All participating places of worship will screen the film within their venue and host a round table discussion immediately afterwards. Sidewalk will provide each participating host venue with a kit containing artwork/templates to be used for marketing the event, an event agenda and suggested questions for the discussion, as well as a copy of the film (with license).
In an effort to bring all of the host venues and their congregations together around this theme, Sidewalk will host a free panel discussion about this film at Sidewalk Film Festival Sunday, August 25.
For more information visit www.sidewalkfest.com/4-little-girls/
7pm @ Varies (Multiple Venues)
Movement Churches: A Screening of Student Films
08/22/2013
The UAB Media Studies will present film premieres of student films related to the Movement Churches.
7 p.m. @ 1200 10th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35294 (UAB Alys Stephens Center)
Education
Jefferson Pinder: Belly of the Beast
08/22/2013
The Lyric Theatre is the only theatre in the city that allowed blacks and whites to simultaneously occupy the same
space. While the theatre was “integrated,” the space remained segregated with blacks in the balcony and whites
in floor seats. Jefferson Pinder plans to orchestrate a vocal duel between a black gospel choir and white bluegrass
singers—talking to each other, yet past each other. The performance will not only capture the complexity of
segregation but also work as a bridge between communities. It is often stated that music is the great equalizer, and in
this performance, the audience will experience the equalizing of “differences.” The art performance will acknowledge
and celebrate our differences and similarities, serving as a reflection of how far we have come as a society
8:45pm (Birmingham Museum of Art)
Film Theatre
Sidewalk Film Festival
08/23/2013 - 08/25/2013
“Annual Life & Liberty Civil and Human Rights Sidebar” and Future’s Inc. premier of “Birmingham Unsung” are films that offer an eye opening glimpse into the lives of the real unsung heroes of black, white, and Jewish descent, the sacrifices they made to induce change in Birmingham, Alabama, and around the world.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
Taste of 4th Ave Jazz Festival
08/23/2013 - 08/25/2013
The Urban Impact hosts “Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival”.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Etched in Collective History
08/25/2013 - 11/17/2013
Etched in Collective History presents artists who interrogate, depict, and memorialize the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement inspired a number of artists to participate physically, in marches and sit-ins, as well as creatively, through the act of making art. Taking into consideration the events that occurred before and after the tragedy, the exhibition will be situated in relation to the 1950s and 1960s. This framework presents a number of voices: multiple viewpoints are needed to understand the impact of racial intolerance and racism against African Americans in this period. These various voices will include male and female artists, as well as local and national artists.
Museum Business Hours @ 2000 Rev Abraham Woods, Jr., Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35203 (Birmingham Museum of Art)
Education
Phenomenal Women’s Summit 2013
08/29/2013 - 08/31/2013
“Phenomenal Women As Trailblazers:Past, Present and Future”
Featuring a special tribute to the four little girls killed 50 years ago in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963.
Registration available after February 1, 2013 at: www.phenomenalwomenssummit.com
Presented by the National Institute for Human Development, Inc.
PO Box 11, Fairfield, Al 35064
Phone (205) 929-1153
@ 2010 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd, North Birmingham, AL 35203 (Sheraton Birmingham Hotel)
Other
Voter Registration Drive + Rally
09/01/2013 - 09/30/2013
Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosts a voter registration drive and rally.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Other
A Continuing Conversation – Project Citizen
09/01/2013 - 09/30/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts A Continuing Conversation – Project Citizen
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
Lifetime Achievement Awards
09/01/2013 - 09/30/2013
Birmingham Pledge Foundation presents the lifetime achievement awards.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Youth
Birmingham Pledge Teen Summit
09/01/2013 - 09/30/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts the Teen Summit.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
National Birmingham Pledge Week
09/01/2013 - 09/30/2013
The Birmingham Pledge Foundation hosts National Birmingham Pledge Week.
@ 2829 2nd Ave S # 307 Birmingham, AL 35233 (Birmingham Pledge Foundation)
Other
2013 International Street Fair
09/01/2013
Sojourns hosts the 2013 International Street Fair: Look How Far We’ve Come
@ 2017 3rd Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203 (Sojourns)
Film Theatre
The Taste of 4th Avenue & the Spike Lee Civil Rights Film Festival
09/01/2013 - 09/07/2013
The Historic Fourth Avenue Business District & Carver Theater with The Sidewalk Film Festival bring the traditional and contemporary jazz street performances together with a festival featuring civil rights-themed films. Screenings will take place in historical Carver Theatre.
Spike Lee Films and Q+A: Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, More Better Blues, Crooklyn, Bamboozled, etc.
“Who Speaks for Birmingham, 2013?” : A new documentary film by the BCRI
Film Premier of “Bir-MING-Ham”: Producer Rod Stevenson will discuss roles of African American, Jewish, and Catholic communities in their mutual support of the Birmingham Civil Rights Campaign.
Documenting Justice Films + UAB
@ 1631 4th Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203 (Carver Theater)
Tim Pennycuff presents “Order in the Midst of Near Chaos”
09/05/2013
Lecture by Tim Pennycuff, archivist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, on the integration of the Birmingham medical center.
6 p.m. @ 950 13th Street South (UAB Hulsey Recital Hall)
Education
Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project
09/08/2013 - 12/02/2013
The Museum will exhibit a new body of work by acclaimed portrait photographer Dawoud Bey that symbolically
commemorates the four young girls whose lives were senselessly lost on September 15, 1963, in the bombing of the
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, as well as the two Birmingham boys who lost their lives in the resulting violence that
day, Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson.
To create the portraits, Bey will photograph girls, women, boys and men who presently live in Birmingham. These
girls and boys will be the same ages (11, 13, 14, and 16) as the children who lost their lives that day in 1963, and the
women and men will be the ages of those boys and girls if they were still alive today. Without specifically referencing
these incidents, the project serves as both a memorial to lives lost, and as a message of hope and promise for the
future.
Museum Hours @ 2000 8th Ave N Birmingham, AL 35203 (Birmingham Museum of Art)
Other
City of Birmingham Empowerment Week
09/12/2013 - 09/15/2013
September 12-14, The National Conference on Civil Rights: “50 Scholars Speak on the 50th ” will take place at the BJCC with collaboration between world renown scholars, foot soldiers, and youth engaging in ten topics on civil rights. Includes ten Mayors from Civil Rights/Sister Cities planning a first time national cultural heritage tourism network. Announcement of the national design competition winner for the deign of a Monument to Foot Soldiers which will be located at Kelly Ingram Park will be announced.
September 14, International Civil Rights Food Festival with Birmingham International Center and International Sister Cities: Major guest performers will perform at the gala to celebrate Birmingham’s present cultural diversity.
September 14, Kelly Ingram Park Light and Sound Show: Preparation for the next day’s commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Film Theatre
To Kill A Mockingbird
09/12/2013 - 09/22/2013
Virginian Samford Theatre presents “To Kill A Mockingbird”.
@ 1116 26th Street South Birmingham, AL 35205 (Virginia Samford Theatre)
Other
Regions Bank and 4 Little Girls Memorial Fund Reception
09/14/2013
Regions Bank and The Memorial Fund for the Four Children Committee will host a fundraiser and reception on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 5:30 p.m. in honor of the four girls killed in the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
The event will be held at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 520 16th St. North, where families of the four girls and past college scholarship recipients of “The Memorial Fund for the Four Children’’ will be recognized. Admission is free.
For more information, call Cara Gober at 205-264-7132. Find them on Instagram at 4littlegirlsfund.
5:30pm @ 520 16th St. North (Birmingham, Alabama)
Religious
The official Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
09/15/2013
Major speakers, re-enactments, and sermons from pastors of numerous denominations who will pray for peace, understanding, and tolerance.
@ 1530 6th Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203 (16th Street Baptist Church)
Keith D. Miller Lecture
09/17/2013
The UAB Department of English will present a lecture by Keith Miller, professor of English at Arizona State University and author of “Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech” and “Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and its Sources.” The event is sponsored by the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities.
7 p.m. @ 950 13th Street South (UAB Hulsey Recital Hall)
Other
Conference with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
09/18/2013 - 09/21/2013
The American Association for the State and Local History present the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Conference.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Live Music
Eric Essix Performs
09/19/2013
UAB Alys Stephens Center presents Eric Essix performs. Essix will perform original music pieces written and performed by renowned guitarist and inductee into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. Essix will perform songs from his landmark recording entitled “4″ that commemorated the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and “Shuttlesworth Drive” to honor the late Rev. Fred. L Shuttlesworth, the Foot Soldier General of the Birmingham Campaign. Many other important songs will be part of this special concert.
@ 1200 10th Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35294 (Alys Stephens Center)
Live Music
A More Convenient Season
09/21/2013
UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center presents “A More Convenient Season” – Composer Yotam Haber created this orchestral work to address the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. The score will be performed by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church youth choir.
@ 1200 10th Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35294 (Alys Stephens Center)
Other
Healthy Salute to Women of the Civil Rights Movement
10/01/2013 - 10/31/2013
Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation Hosts a Healthy Salute to Women of the Civil Rights Movement Luncheon.
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Education
Question Bridge: Black Males
10/06/2013 - 12/29/2013
Question Bridge is a trans-media art project that counters established notions of Black masculinity in the United States.
The project presents over three hours of videotaped interviews with several dozen Black men, who are seen on multiple video screens. As a multi-generational and cross-national project,
Question Bridge addresses pressing issues that Black men face in the United States. Men from Birmingham are included in this dialogue that encompasses issues of race, class, sexuality, and economic status, asking questions that are political, humorous, painful, and poignant. Visitors are invited into a space where they can experience an intimate exchange between subjects of the project. The installation creates a platform for participants to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.
Museum Hours @ 2000 8th Avenue North Birmingham Alabama 35203 (Birmingham Museum of Art)
Film Theatre
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
10/07/2013 - 10/19/2013
The Birmingham Children’s Theatre presents “The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963”. The play, based on a hilarious and deeply moving story, depicted in the novel of the same title, chronicles a lengthy stay in Birmingham, Alabama, by the Watson family of Flint, Michigan, which coincided with a moment in world history: the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Mon-Fri: 10am + 12 pm Sat-Sun: 2pm (BJCC)
Christopher Paul Curtis
10/10/2013
The UAB Department of English and the Birmingham Children’s Theatre will present Christopher Paul Curtis, author of “The Watsons Go to Birmingham.” The event is sponsored by the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities.
7 p.m. @ 950 13th Street South (UAB Hulsey Recital Hall)
Other
Community Harvest Rally
11/01/2013 - 11/30/2013
The Birmingham Metro Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) hosts a Community Harvest Rally.
@ 1753 34th Place North, Birmingham, AL 35234 (Shiloh Baptist Church)
Eric Foner Lecture
11/22/2013
The UAB Department of History will present Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning “The Fiery Trial” Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.” The free, public event is sponsored by the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities.
7 p.m. @ 1301 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-4555 (UAB Alumni House)