Tag: birmingham history
Museum of Black Radio History to Open This Spring in Birmingham
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) began as a project for Bob Friedman in 1992 to commemorate the...
MLK, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and the Private Meetings That Helped Transform...
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
What began as a three-day retreat and planning session called by Martin Luther King Jr. in September 1962 helped lead...
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate...
-Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday is being commemorated on January 15.
Meet the Designers Behind Birmingham’s 1963 Civil Rights Poster Series
By Michael Sznajderman
Alabama News Center
In a modest, windowless office in the basement of Birmingham City Hall, a pair of graphic designers are charting an artistic...
Milestones of the Movement: Closing Out 2023 With a Timeline of...
The Birmingham Times
Many events shaped 1963 into a transformative year for Birmingham. Here are some milestones 60 years later as 2023 comes to a...
UAB’s Dr. Tondra Loder-Jackson and Birmingham’s Schoolhouse Activists
By Sym Posey
The Birmingham Times
As a military child, Tondra Loder-Jackson lived in a number of locales including Hawaii; Texas; and Maryland, but no place...
“He was the epitome of greatness. Somebody might ask, ‘Why do...
-Dr. Jonathan McPherson, Sr. pastor St. John Baptist Church, Edgewater, who delivered the eulogy for Civil Rights icon Frank Dukes; birminghamtimes.com, Nov. 20.
“Why has it taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for...
-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, birminghamtimes.com, Sept. 16.
“The major trauma for me was the beating he took here...
-Patricia Shuttlesworth Massengill, 80, daughter of the legendary Birmingham Civil Rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth at Phillips Academy, which renamed its auditorium in honor...
Inside Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
A phone rings inside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull lifts up the receiver.
The...
