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1871 –City of Birmingham founded; now the state’s most populous city, Birmingham was founded at the crossing of two rail lines near one of the world’s richest deposits of minerals.
1873 Birmingham becomes seat of Jefferson County.
–First Colored Baptist Church founded. Birmingham particularly hard hit by cholera due to the lack of urban infrastructure and the poor housing conditions. At least 128 people died from cholera, which struck in the height of summer and persisted for several weeks. The outbreak caused about half of Birmingham’s 4,000 residents to flee.
1874 – Birmingham Iron Age newspaper in publication.
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Hypocrisy backfires on State of Alabama
Updated May 09, 2021;
Today’s guest columnist is J. Mason Davis.
I graduated from Talladega College, a small liberal arts college located in Talladega, Alabama, in June 1956.
Talladega College had been founded in 1867 as one of the first, if not the first, school for educating the former enslaved Black man, though not limited to his or her race.
I wanted to become a lawyer to follow in the footsteps of my mother’s middle brother, Walter Wellington Harris, who had graduated from Ohio State University Law School in 1933.
Being a resident of the city of Birmingham, the nearest law school for me was located at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa. However, I was prohibited from attending the law school because I was classified as a Negro, and the University of Alabama was supported by all taxpaying Alabamians exclusively for those who claimed to be Caucasian.