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Avondale (Birmingham) / 33.5240083°N 86.7780444°W / 33.5240083; -86.7780444. Avondale was a company town built around the Avondale Mills east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887. [1] The city was annexed into Birmingham in 1910 and is now divided into three separate neighborhoods ...
The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama .
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 ...
It is located in Jefferson County, five miles northeast of Downtown Birmingham, near the interchange of Interstates 20 and 59 . BHM served 3,056,215 passengers in 2023, and is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Alabama by passenger volume. [4] The airfield can handle all aircraft types.
May 19, 2011 [2] A.H. Parker High School is a four-year public high school in Birmingham, Alabama. It is one of seven high schools in the Birmingham City School System and is named for longtime Birmingham educator Arthur Harold Parker. [3] School colors are purple and white, and the mascot is the Bison (the 'Thundering Herd').
Smiths Station is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area. At the time of the 2000 census, it was still a census-designated place (CDP), and its population was 6,756. The area that incorporated as Smiths Station in 2001 was much smaller than the CDP, and contained a population of 4,926 ...
FIPS code. 01-35800. GNIS feature ID. 2404724 [4] Website. cityofhomewood.com. Homewood is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, located on the other side of Red Mountain due south of the city center. The population was 26,414 at the 2020 census.
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.