Tag: history
Birmingham Prepares to Celebrate Fred Shuttlesworth’s 100th
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham plans to honor its most prominent civil rights leader, the late Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, this week on the...
Rep. Terri Sewell welcomes one of her biggest fights since being...
Donna M. Owens
NBC News
In August, Rep. Terri Sewell stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in her hometown, Selma, Alabama, to tout...
Vice President Kamala Harris Marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ Anniversary in Selma
By KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press
SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for...
Autherine Lucy Foster, first Black student at University of Alabama, dies...
Associated Press
Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died Wednesday. She was 92.
University officials announced her death...
Killed in War, Bill Terry Jr. Was First Black Buried in...
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Alabama NewsCenter
Phyllis Palmer remembers laughing when her brother talked about being buried at Elmwood Cemetery.
The year was 1968 and the United...
Loretta Harrison, New Orleans Chef and Praline Shop Founder, Dies at...
Clair Lorell
eater.comLoretta Harrison, a cherished New Orleans chef and the founder of Loretta’s Authentic Pralines, the city’s first praline shop owned by an African...
Erin Jackson of US 1st Black Woman to Win Speedskating Gold
By PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — Erin Jackson has never viewed herself as some sort of trailblazer. She just likes to skate really, really...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ available for all...
By Caroline Gazzara-McKenzie
University of Alabama
It was 1963 and Birmingham was going through a racial revolution. Demonstrations and peaceful protests against the city’s strict segregation...
Jim Peppler’s Photos From the Civil Rights Movement Captured Black History...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Few have chronicled Alabama history the way Jim Peppler has.
The photographer was on the ground during the mid-1960s for the...
Black History Month: Major Speeches by Douglass, DuBois and Many Others
Times staff report
Some of the greatest individuals in black history have delivered some of the most significant speeches in American history. Their names and...
