Lenten Photo a Day Practice - Day 3 Sacrifice

So many sacrificed during the Civil Rights Movement, and here in Birmingham, we have never forgotten. The Eour Spritis, by Birmingham sculptor Elizabeth McQueen is a powerful tribute to the four young girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. In the distance, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.  Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham.

For the next 40 days of Lent, I will be posting a photo each day using the list from RethinkChurch.org. I've been wanting a project to push my photography and I hope you will enjoy my offerings and maybe some of you might want to join as well. #rethinkchurch

Sunday Church Series - 16th Street Baptist Church

Established in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church, it was the first black church in the city of Birmingham. On September 15, 1963, a bomb ripped through the church killing four young girls - Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson and injuring 20 church members. This senseless killing, aimed to slow down the civil rights movement in Birmingham served to propel the movement forward.

Sunday Church Series - 16th Avenue Baptist Church

On September 15, 1963, this church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members killing four little girls. This was taken from Kelly Ingram Park. It shows Elizabeth MacQueen's powerful Four Spirits sculpture with the church in the background.

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Best of 2013

Today, the first day of January, 2014 the CDP bloggers around the world have chosen the photograph that they feel is the best of 2013.  My choice was easy this year.  Today I repost Addie Mae's Shoes , part of the beautiful sculpture The Four Spirits by Birmingham native Elizabeth Macqueen.  The work was unveiled in September during commemorative events marking the 50 year anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed for dear little girls.  Macqueen's beautiful sculpture stands at the corner of Kelly Ingram Park, across the street from the church.

Please click HERE to see the images that my fellow CDP blog friends have chosen as their favorites for 2013. 

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Details

Birmingham sculptor, Elizabeth MacQueen's powerful sculpture The Four Spirits, was unveiled on the 50th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church taking the lives of four innocent little girls in 1963. Pictured here is Cynthia Wesley sitting on the bench with an open book in her lap.  Look closely and you see it's an excerpt from Y.B.Yeat's poem, The Stolen Child.

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Today my City Daily Photoblog friends around the world are sharing their take on this month's theme......details. Click here to see them all!