Tag: civil rights
ASU Residence Hall Renamed after Key Figure in Montgomery Bus Boycott
By Lois G. Russell
ASU
The Alabama State University Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to rename one of the campus’s historic residence halls in honor...
City Observes 58th Anniversary of 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
By Haley Wilson
The Birmingham Times
On a rainy September morning, 58 years to the day after four little girls lost their lives in a horrific...
The Historical Importance of Birmingham’s Famed Masonic Temple
By Michael Sznajderman
Alabama Newscenter
Walking through the grand auditorium and other spaces inside the long-closed Masonic Temple on Birmingham’s Fourth Avenue, it’s easy to picture the bustle...
U.S. Civil Rights Trail Companion Book Showcases Alabama’s History
By Michael Sznajderman
Alabama Newscenter
Lee Sentell was in college when he personally heard the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It was during...
‘Desecration’ of Bishop Calvin Woods Landmark Condemned by City Council, Civil...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
In a resolution presented to the Birmingham City Council on Tuesday, Councilor Steven Hoyt said the city should “reinforce” its...
1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
By Rebecca Santana
Associated Press
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration...
60 Years Later, Freedom Riders Roll into Birmingham
Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
Dozens of patrons visited the parking lot of the Birmingham Public Library’s Central Branch last week to tour a...
Vernon Jordan, activist, former Clinton adviser, has died
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing...
Alabama Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks recalls her civil rights journey
By Michael Sznadjerman
Alabama Newscenter
In her police mugshot taken almost 60 years ago in Jackson, Mississippi, Catherine Burks-Brooks looks straight into the camera, without fear...
Dr. Ben Carson In Birmingham With $2.9M Grant to Find Site...
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, this week announced a $2.9 million federal grant to fund...