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![June 9, 1964 “Bloody Tuesday” Tuscaloosa, AL: Statetroopers and Klansmans brutally attacked over 500 Black citizens who had gathered at the First African Baptist Church using tear gas and clubs, invading the church in the largest single assault on a church during the Civil Rights movement. [800×528]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/08h1rjwc1a6h1.jpeg)
June 9, 1964 “Bloody Tuesday” Tuscaloosa, AL: Statetroopers and Klansmans brutally attacked over 500 Black citizens who had gathered at the First African Baptist Church using tear gas and clubs, invading the church in the largest single assault on a church during the Civil Rights movement. [800×528]

![The flag draped body of Major Thomas D. Howie laid to rest on the rubble of Sainte-Croix Church after he was killed during the Battle of Saint-Lô. Normandy, France, July 1944 [610 × 480]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/b64qwk7oafeh1.jpeg)
![Soldiers from the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade in a damaged church in Carpiquet, France. 12 July 1944 [2480 × 2594]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/asrio1d6mtch1-scaled.jpeg)

![GIs take a break and clean their weapons in the damaged church of Saint-Georges in Saint-Georges-d’Elle during the Battle for Hill 192 in Normandy, July 1944. (Frank Scherschel Photo for LIFE Magazine) [1440×1440]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/esnkn17b7mbh1.jpeg)

![On 6-30, 1974, six years after the assassination of her son MLK Jr., 69 yo Alberta Williams King was shot and killed inside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA while she played the organ just after she finished playing “The Lord’s Prayer.” [632×741]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fk63kiuo4hah1-scaled.jpeg)

![On 6-24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge, a popular gay bar and home to the Metropolitan Community Church in NO French Quarter. Pictured here is the trapped Rev. Bill Larson, an openly gay pastor who led the congregation and provided a safe sanctuary to worship. [512×385]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fotsml5k289h1.jpeg)

![A US soldier inspecting piles of looted art and goods being stored in a Bavarian church at the end of WWII. (1945) [3006×2400]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/lpalsgjlbg3h1-scaled.jpeg)

![Two Marines keep an eye out for a Japanese sniper in the ruins of a Church near the Shuri Castle on Okinawa while a patrol moves in from the rear to take him out – Late May 1945 [1080×841]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/0e8t2jinjb4h1.jpeg)

![Sarah Jean Collins (12) rests at the hospital after the KKK bombing of Birmingham church. Her sister died and 3 more girls who were also at sunday school. Alabama, September of 1963 [770×1024]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/0h55o1it2k0h1.png)

![Children sit at the base of a pillar of the Circular Church on Meeting Street in Charleston, SC ca April 1865. [994×776]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/3r4te5zrehrg1.jpeg)
