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Teaching civil rights legacy through song
Darren Iozia, darren.iozia@myjournalcourier.com
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Wanda Howard Battle, tour director at the church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, sings while giving tours and teaching about King’s legacy.Provided
Wanda Howard Battle, who spoke at Illinois College on Feb. 16, feels blessed that she has the talent of singing while giving tours at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.preached from 1954 to 1960.
“When visitors sing, we sing songs of freedom,” Battle said Friday.
Battle is tour director at Memorial Church and said she tours people from all over the world from all types of cultures.
“THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG,” TO PREMIERE IN FEBRURY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH APT and WVAS
Montgomery: From Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery to 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, these prominent Black churches in Alabama and across America have played major historic roles in the foundation of the heartbeat of the Black communities. Beginning with enslavement, Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement to the present-day, Black churches in America tell the richest of stories, sing the glorious of songs and sculpt the core of Black communities.
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“THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG,” TO PREMIERE IN FEBRURY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PBS and WVAS
Montgomery, AL: From Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery to 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, these prominent Black Churches in Alabama and across America have played major historic roles in the foundation of the country heartbeat of the Black communities. Beginning with enslavement, Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement to the present-day, Black Churches in America tell the richest of stories, sing the glorious of songs and sculpt the core of African American communities.