Tag: segregation

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times The Rev. Frank Dukes, an influential Birmingham Civil Rights Movement leader and President of Miles College's trailblazing student body in...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times Carol Maull McKinstry, 15 years old in 1963, had been a member of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church since the...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi hotel that gave Black travelers safe lodging during segregation and once welcomed such notables as the Rev. Martin...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Terry Collins still remembers hearing disc jockeys deliver coded messages urging he and other Birmingham high school classmates at the...

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...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Birmingham have been intertwined ever since the Civil Rights leader helped dismantle segregation in...

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz NEW YORK (AP) — More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his...

By Bob Blalock Alabama NewsCenter University of Alabama coach Nick Saban completed a decade of dominance in college football this past January when his Crimson Tide team demolished Ohio...

Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For The Birmingham Times Brian Moore admits he knew little about the Bham Cleanup project that grew from the rubble and shattered glass...

By Chanda Temple  Special to The Birmingham Times  All photos by NicTay Photography Cornelius Harris and Judith Harris    Married: May 27, 1967 Live: Birmingham’s Brook Highland neighborhood. Met: Cornelius and Judith’s older...