Barbara Bonfield

Barbara Bonfield

Barbara Bonfield discovered that her 1800s ancestors owned six slaves, and today she has become friends with one of the slaves’ descendents.

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Virginia Volker

Virginia Volker

Virginia Volker is a Birmingham Unitarian who grew up in Sylacauga, Alabama, in the 1940s and 1950s and became a lifelong activist in the fight for human rights.

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Anne Reeb

Anne Reeb

Anne Reeb is the daughter of Rev. James Reeb, the Unitarian minister who was fatally beaten during the 1965 marches in Selma.

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Edward Brock

Edward Brock

Edward Brock is a Unitarian minister who grew up near Birmingham, Alabama, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Robert Williams

Robert Williams

Robert Williams is a Birmingham Unitarian who grew up in the rural Black Belt region of Alabama during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Phyllis Benington

Phyllis Benington

Phyllis Benington was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham during the 1960s and was active in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Patricia Reese

Patricia Reese

Patricia Reese is the widow of Carlton Reese, the longtime director of the African American Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir.

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Pamela Sterne King

Pamela Sterne King

Pamela Sterne King is a history professor at UAB specializing in historic preservation and public history, with a special focus on Bimingham’s racial history.

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Pamela Walbert Montanaro

Pamela Walbert Montanaro

Pamela, the daughter of Birmingham human rights activist Eileen Walbert, participated in interracial activities during the 1960s.

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Nims Gay

Nims Gay

Nims Gay is one of the two founders of the African-American Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir.

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