Historic church receives grant

BIRMINGHAM — The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham has been named one of 11 U.S. sites to win grant funding from this year’s annual Partners in Preservation: Main Streets campaign.
The church will use the $150,000 grant to restore the church’s historic windows, cupola and bell towers installed in 1911.
In 1963, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was the target of the infamous, racially-motivated bombing in which four young girls were killed. It still functions as a house of worship and gathering space as well as a tourist destination. (TAB)