Tag: segregation
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...
Frank Dukes, Influential Leader of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, Dies...
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...
Carol McKinstry, Birmingham Church Bombing Survivor, on the ‘Hurt And Grief’
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...
Black-Owned Hotel Razed; Was Safe Haven During Segregation
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi hotel that gave Black travelers safe lodging during segregation and once welcomed such notables as the Rev. Martin...
‘Traveling Billboard’ Unveiled; Motorcoach Honors Civil Rights in Birmingham AL
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...
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...
A Listing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nearly Two Dozen...
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...
Judge tosses convictions of 2 men in killing of Malcolm X
By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz
NEW YORK (AP) — More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his...
Tuskegee’s ‘Cleve’ Abbott dominated like no other coach in Alabama
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...
Birmingham artist: ‘Heaven’s not segregated, so why should earth be ....
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...
