\u201cSixteenth Street Church had unwillingly come into the civil rights movement and was quick to exit the movement\u2014and yet in many ways it becomes the symbol of the movement in Birmingham\u2014so much so that following the dynamite blast, many of its members leave.\u201d Watch more of our interview with Glenn Eskew, professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta and author of the book “But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"