On Wednesday, August 23, the economic development nonprofit will partner with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) to host an evening of reflections and art exhibitions to honor Sarah Collins Rudolph and Lisa McNair. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. inside of the BCRI.
A bronze and steel bench on the corner of Kelly Ingram Park pays tribute to the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. Urban Impact will host an event this evening to honor the upcoming 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
On Wednesday, August 23, the economic development nonprofit will partner with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to host an evening of reflections and art exhibitions to honor Sarah Collins Rudolph and Lisa McNair.Carla Youngblood, the Operations Director for Urban Impact, says a question and answer session with Rudolph and McNair will kick off the event. After the conversation, a group of artists will reveal pieces dedicated to both women.
Rudolph was 12 years old when dynamite planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan inside of the 16th Street Baptist Church exploded on Sept. 15, 1963. The blast blew glass and shrapnel at her face, leaving her blind in one eye, and killed her sister Addie Mae Collins and their friends Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair.
Rudolph had glass fragments in her chest, left eye and abdomen for decades after the explosion. Often called “the fifth little girl,” Rudolph rarely spoke in detail about her injuries from the bombing. That changed in the late eighties when she attended a church service at The Lighthouse in Ensley. Rudolph decided to get saved, and the pastor of the church prayed over her.
“And then when I got up off that floor, I joined the choir. I joined the usher board. I got up and started testifying. I started doing things that I never did think I could do in a church. I went up there and I sang that song, and I knew then that God had healed me,”
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