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The City of Birmingham is inviting public input on the Birmingham Civil Rights Crossroads project, a planned 3.16-mile urban ...
Birmingham Historical Society- The organization has published several books on aspects of the Civil Rights Movement including MINUTES-Central Committee of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human ...
The city has set up several days of meetings and an online survey to get comments on plans for improvements to the route stretching from downtown westward through Smithfield and Graymont.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute presents the moving story of the city's role in the civil rights movement, focusing not just on the past, but also on the continuing international struggle ...
Congress must still approve the bill, which is supported by Alabama’s Republican ... Life and History, said Birmingham in 1963 was key to the civil rights movement. “The addition of this ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Construction workers are putting the finishing touches on the courtyard of the newly restored AG Gaston Motel. The renovation of the downtown hotel is the latest addition to ...
Sixty years ago this month, in May 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama, used clubs ... of the most disturbing visuals of the entire civil rights movement. A photograph of officer Dick Middleton ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala ... instrumental to what ultimately came out of the Civil Rights Movement,” said Figures. The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium is using this ...
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the struggles of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
It had been a famous motel even before the movement ... Birmingham Civil Rights protesters hold a news conference in the courtyard of the AG Gaston Motel in the Spring of 1963. Alabama Department ...