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April 3: Birmingham campaign for civil rights begins. [25] April 16: Martin Luther King Jr. writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail", first published in June 1963 issues of Liberation, [26] The Christian Century, [27] and The New Leader. May: Birmingham riot of 1963. September 15: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
The tallest building in the city is the 34- story Wells Fargo Tower, completed in 1986, which is 454 feet (138 m) tall. [2] The tower was also the tallest building in the U.S. state of Alabama until the completion of the RSA Battle House Tower in Mobile in 2007. [3] Birmingham's second-tallest skyscraper, the Regions-Harbert Plaza, rises 437 ...
Website. Official Website. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the events and actions of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and the other Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The Institute is located in the Civil Rights District ...
The Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory. or diocese, of the Catholic Church that encompasses the northern 39 counties of Alabama in the United States. [1] It was erected on December 9, 1969, with territory from what is now the Archdiocese of Mobile. The Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama is a suffragan ...
1250 13th St., N. 33°31′30″N 86°49′24″W. / 33.52500°N 86.82333°W / 33.52500; -86.82333 ( Fire Station No. 11) A former fire station built in 1910 in the working-class Fountain Heights neighborhood, Station No. 11 was built in a commercial style, in contrast to later suburban stations.
0165344 [5] Website. montgomeryal.gov. Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. [9] Named for Continental Army Major General Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 200,603 at the 2020 census. [6]
UTC-5 (CDT) FIPS code. 01-71280. GNIS feature ID. 0127070. Snead is a town in Blount County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,032.
2405646 [3] Website. vhal.org. Vestavia Hills, colloquially known simply as Vestavia, [6] is a city in Jefferson and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is a suburb of Birmingham and it is made up of Vestavia, Liberty Park, and Cahaba Heights. The population was 39,102 at the 2020 census. [4]