Fire in Miles College dormitory causes minor injuries

Civil Rights Timeline

The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned

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Pam Butler’s Road to Recovery Helps Those in Active Addictions

After graduating from high school in 1983, Butler attended Jacksonville State University, where she studied engineering—it’s also where she tried cocaine, which led to an addiction that lasted for a decade and frequent trips to treatment

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Church Bombing

Four Black girls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

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Sep

15

1963

Anti-Segregation Campaign

Martin Luther King Jr. opened anti-segregation campaign in Birmingham. More than two thousand demonstrators, including King, were arrested before the campaign ended.

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Apr

3

1963

Hilliard, Earl (1942- )

In 1975 Hilliard began his political career when he won a seat in the Alabama state legislature representing a Birmingham district. Elected to the state senate in 1980, Hilliard fought for legislation that would benefit the urban poor. During his time in the state senate, he became chairman of the

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Hall, Stuart (1932-2014)

Stuart Hall was a leading 20th Century cultural theorist and a sociologist. Hall, widely known as a founder of British Cultural Studies and the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, pioneered theories of multiculturalism. He is generally credited with expanding the field of cultural studies to

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Feb

10

2014

Jefferson County Jails To Get New Health Care Provider On June 1

Beginning June 1, Jefferson County jails will get a new health care provider—Birmingham-based NaphCare Inc., which offers correctional services across 27

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Algeria: Nice - Hicham Boudaoui , Best Hope of the Season

Nice has initiated a vote for the best hope of the season in the club

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UAB Doctor Raises Money to Create Face Shields in Zambia

Realizing that what was happening in the United States would eventually spread to Africa, he began thinking of ways to help frontline health care workers from his home in

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Ghana: "I-Don't Care-Ism" Is What Will Destroy Dear Ghana!

The figures of the infected became more and more indicative of the fact that the community at large had now begun to catch the

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Most Violent Episode of the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

Danville was a tobacco and textile town of about 50,000 residents, a third of whom were

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Nat Cole Attacked

Singer Nat King Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites who were very intelligent.

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Apr

11

1956

Flowers, Vonetta (1973- )

The first person of African descent, male or female, to wina gold medal at the Winter Olympics was Vonetta Flowers when she won gold inthe womens bobsled event in 2002 at SaltLake

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Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and

Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned by segregationists outside Anniston, Alabama. Group was attacked in Anniston and Birmingham.

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May

14

1961

Arrington, Richard (1934- )

Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in Livingston, Alabama on October 19, 1934 to sharecroppers. He received a Bachelors degree from Miles College (Alabama), a M.A. in Biology from the University of Detroit in Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Zoology and

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Oct

19

1934

Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was a black-American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, as well as his own son, Warith Deen

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Williams v. Mississippi (1898)

? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic

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Elmina - Medieval Trading Center on West African Coast

In the 15th century AD, Elmina (also known as Mina, Amina, Aminra, or Aminer) was one of several port communities on the Ghana coast (a.k.a. Gold Coast) of western Africa, associated with the West African ethnic group called Akan (Asante or Atweafo). Between the late 16th and early 19th

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, MLK, Reverend King, and Luther King redirect here. For the Nigerian preacher, see Reverend King (Nigerian pastor). For the Portuguese footballer known as Luther King, see Martin

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)

One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlantas NAACP chapter, and the son

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Birmingham’s Cicely Jones, Financial Advisor, Offers Sage Advice During COVID-19

With the COVID-19 pandemic having a major impact on both the financial markets and the personal assets of many, Cicely Jones, CEO and founder of MPA Financials, remains on a mission to equip the Birmingham community with tools to attain financial freedom and establish generational

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Kenya/Uganda: Starlets Moulded Me, Ugandan-Based Kenyan Player Ogol Says

Former Harambee Starlets midfielder Jacky Ogol has found her footing at the Federation of Uganda Football Association (Fufa) Super League side She Corporates

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Regions panelists advise prioritizing health – emotional and physical – during COVID-19 pandemic

During normal times, the conversation series takes place in front of a packed auditorium at Regions’ Birmingham

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Dorian Francis

Dorian Francis, the CEO of the Love Label By Dorian

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Angela Davis: Philosopher, Radical Activist, Teacher

Angela Davis is known as a radical activist, philosopher, writer, speaker, and educator. She was well known for a time through her association with the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s. She was fired from one teaching job for being a Communist, and she appeared on the Federal Bureau of

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Aug

7

1970

20 Best African-American Horror Movies

Comedic icon Mantan Moreland, perhaps best known as sidekick Birmingham Brown in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1940s, also starred in several all-black horror-comedies with his straight man, F.E. Miller— including this one about a pair of men who win a house in a game of craps. The only

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The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A Participant Recalls Its Past

In the article below historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall recounts her role as a founder of the New Orleans Youth Congress and the early years of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. This account is part of her soon to be published

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Nov

15

1974

Home of Rev. F.L. Shuttlesworth

Home of Rev. F.L. Shuttlesworth, Birmingham protest leader, destroyed by dynamite bomb.

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Dec

25

1956

Racial divide of coronavirus is real, so are innovations that can help

While coronavirus does not know boundaries of race, income, or ethnicity, its disproportionate impact on minority communities is unmistakable and points to a deeper crisis of racial disparities in health care that have persisted long before the onset of this

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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

My Dear Fellow

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