Shuttlesworth, as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Collegeville from 1956-61, led early efforts at desegregation in Birmingham. Shuttlesworth, Old Sardis Pastor Robert Alford and other ministers ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The Rev. Samuel P. Pettagrue Jr., who was pastor of Sardis Baptist Church in Birmingham from 1971-2006 and was convicted in 2009 for his role in a kickback scheme with a ...

Grace Shannon was a new bride when she began worshiping at New Bride Missionary Baptist Church in 1957 with her husband, ...

The Old Sardis Baptist Church was awarded $192,000 to preserve the building and part of civil rights history. The money was given by The Alabama Historical Commission.

Birmingham, Alabama -- The Rev. Samuel Pettagrue, pastor of the 3,000-member Sardis Baptist Church, and a group of 35 volunteers are in the African nation of Ghana this week, distributing medicine ...

Jr., including the day he was released after writing his famous "letter from Birmingham jail." And, chillingly, one image of the bombed-out 16th Street Baptist Church that Chris McNair took ...

There will be a grand celebration beginning at 11 this morning at New Sardis Baptist Church’s annual African-American History Celebration. The church at 7739 E. Holmes Road itself is an ...

A state trooper and two plainclothes men stand guard at a roadblock at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a day after the bombing on Sept. 16, 1963. "There was no memorial," she says.