Eddie James Kendrick

Historical marker location:

Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of 4th Avenue North and 18th Street North, on the left when traveling west on 4th Avenue North.)

Marker installed: 1999

December 17, 1937 - October 5, 1992.

Alabama is home to several important civil rights landmarks, including the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was the site of a deadly bombing in 1963, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was the site of the "Bloody Sunday" confrontation between civil rights marchers and state troopers in 1965.