Shattered Glass in Birmingham: My Family's Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964

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The Jimerson family at the First Baptist Church in Hopewell, Virginia, during the time Dad was thinking about taking a job as director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations. Le# to right: Melva, Randy, Paul, Jim, Ann, and Susie. Randy Jimerson, seventh grade school picture, fall 1961. A#er the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, one stained glass window remained largely intact, except for the face of Jesus. Courtesy Birmingham, Ala. Public Library Archives. The bomb detonated at the rear side of the church, filling the street with rubble, shattered glass, and wrecked cars. Courtesy Birmingham, Ala. Public Library Archives. Re-dedication service for Sixteenth Street Baptist Church following its renovation, August 30, 1964. Le# to right: Reverend Oley Kidd, Reverend Norman C. Jimerson, Reverend Allix B. James, Reverend Ed Stanfield, and church pastor, Reverend John Cross. Reverend Joseph Lowery is out of the picture frame on le# side. Mrs. Maxine McNair, mother of one of the four girls killed in the bombing, is in the choir, upper right. Photo courtesy Chris McNair Studio. Melva Jimerson holding the stained glass before its donation to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, in 2002. Photo by Ann Jimerson. The only known photograph of Dad with Martin Luther King, Jr. With Core
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King and Senator Hubert Humphrey at the May 1964 American Baptist Convention in Atlantic City. Crusader magazine, 1968. Courtesy of the American Baptist Historical Society, Atlanta, Georgia. The Jimerson children in February 1963. Le# to right: Randy, Ann (holding Mark), Paul, and Susie. ...