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Website. www.oxfordal.gov. Oxford is a city in Calhoun, Talladega, and Cleburne counties in the State of Alabama, United States. The population was 22,069 at the 2020 census,. [2] Oxford is one of two principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area, and it is the largest city in Calhoun County by population.
The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
An Alabama city council member is speaking out against her colleagues for kicking all residents out of a meeting while they were asking questions about Haitian migrants in their small town of only ...
In the summer of 1919, the mayor of Hobson City, Alabama, was Newman O'Neal. He served his community until he received death threats in the form of a " black hand letter surmounted by a skull and crossbones." [ 2] He ignored the letter but he was assaulted by unknown aggressors and seriously injured forcing him north into exile in late July ...
Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist.He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a white supremacist ticket.
Residents of a small Alabama city were up in arms at the migrant influx during a recent city council hearing that lawmakers suddenly cut short amid the outcry. Meanwhile, state leaders demanded ...
Oxford Performing Arts Center. Coordinates: 33.6146°N 85.8340°W. The 1200-seat main theatre within the Oxford Performing Arts Center. The Oxford Performing Arts Center is a performing arts venue located in Oxford, Alabama. The venue opened in May 2013 with a gala concert by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. [1]
Mike Shaw (Alabama politician) George G. Siebels Jr. Harri Anne Smith. Carole Smitherman. Joseph Smitherman. Jerry Starnes.