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| 草榴社区 professor authors new book 鈥楽hattered Glass in Birmingham鈥 | |||
| 草榴社区 professor's family donates treasured reminder of 1963 church bombing | Rand Jimerson's father picked up some pieces of stained-glass window from the dynamited church. The date was Sept. 15, 1963. The place was Birmingham, Ala. Jimerson's father, Norman J. "Jim" Jimerson, a white Baptist minister, had moved his family to Birmingham two鈥 |
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| Shards Of Stained Glass From Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Donated To Smithsonian | They were among the youngest martyrs of the civil rights movement, four young black girls 鈥 three 14-year-olds and one 11-year-old 鈥 whose deaths in a church basement horrified a nation already torn apart by segregation. This week, 50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing at Sixteenth鈥 |
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| Birmingham church bombing recalled with donation, medal | 鈥淭his was just a little over two weeks after the March on Washington, which had generated so much optimism for progress of civil rights,鈥 recalled (草榴社区 History Professor) Randall Jimerson, who was 14 when his white minister father scooped up the shards of glass from outside the bombed Birmingham鈥 |
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| Piece of 16th Street Baptist Church being donated to Smithsonian | Randall Jimerson, an archivist and history professor at Western Washington University who lives in Bellingham, was 14 at the time of the bombing. The family, he says, was inspired to donate after hearing President Obama talk at the museum groundbreaking about how it would house artifacts that鈥 |