A new $2.5 million museum honoring Black civic leaders of the 1880s to 1920s opened Thursday inside the former parsonage of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Sep. 15, 2022, 1:44 p.m.The parsonage of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church has been renovated into the Wallace A. Rayfield Museum, honoring the Black buildings of early Birmingham.
Evans helped lay a wreath at the spot where the bomb exploded on Sept. 15, 1963, at 10:22 a.m., during the Sunday school hour. Four girls were killed: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. About 80 percent of the funding for the museum came from federal grants, including the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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