Birmingham hosts Lift Every Voice concert

Birmingham hosts Lift Every Voice concert

BIRMINGHAM — Thomas Wilder, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham, is part of the Lift Every Voice communitywide event in the Birmingham area March 24. Civil Rights icon Fred Shuttlesworth was pastor of Bethel Baptist during the Civil Rights Movement.

Others included in the special event celebrating Birmingham’s 50 years of progress in civil rights include Myla Choy, senior vice president of the Birmingham Business Alliance, and Tuskegee University’s Golden Voices Concert Choir. The Tuskegee choir was organized by Booker T. Washington in 1886. Wayne A. Barr is director of choral activities at Tuskegee University.

The concert event will take place at 4 p.m. at Canterbury United Methodist Church, 350 Overbrook Road, Mountain Brook. For more information, visit www.canterburyumc.org.