Calvin Woods Sr., Birmingham Civil Rights Leader, ‘Servant of God’, Dies at 91

(Source: Brimingham Times)

Bishop Calvin Woods Sr., distinguished Birmingham Civil Rights leader and longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Norwood, died on Saturday. He was 91.

Mr. Woods was one of the city’s leading voices for equality for decades and one of the few area pastors to have worked and traveled with Civil Rights icon the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr…

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