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The Birmingham Times 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. Sloss Furnaces. (Birmingham, Ala. Public Library Archives) ....
By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times Legendary businessman Dr. Jesse J. Lewis Sr. smoothly makes the 20-minute drive from Birmingham’s historic Smithfield neighborhood, where he lives, to the Roebuck Municipal Golf Course on a chilly late January morning, two weeks after his 96th birthday. Once at the course which he leases from the city of Birmingham, one of his numerous business endeavors he cranks up one of the golf carts, loads his bag of clubs and drivers, and heads to a nearby hole where he puts his ball-striking skills on display. It doesn’t take long for him or the cold winter sun to warm up. Soon the man known as “Doc” is sinking putt after putt with the ease of a professional tournament champion. ....
Autherine Lucy Foster integrated The University of Alabama 65 years ago today Updated Feb 01, 2021; The night before a 26-year-old secretary from Birmingham was set to enroll as the first Black student in The University of Alabama’s 124 years of existence, four crosses were burned on the Tuscaloosa campus. Autherine Lucy made history the next day, Feb. 1, 1956, when she successfully enrolled at the university after a three-year federal court battle. Minutes later, Lucy was informed that the board of trustees would not allow her to stay in a dormitory or eat in the cafeteria because her presence “might endanger the safety or result in sociological disadvantage to the students.” ....
In Alabama, MLK Day means memories of love in the face of hate Updated Jan 18, 2021; Posted Jan 18, 2021 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who orchestrated the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56 and non-violent protest marches in Birmingham in 1963 inspired by Gandhi, was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.(AL.com file art/Bill Thomas/The Birmingham News) Facebook Share In Birmingham, King taught love in the face of hate. This January would have marked King’s 91st birthday. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. He was killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis. King’s wife, Coretta, was born in Marion, King was a pastor in Montgomery, and Alabama was a major backdrop for the events of his life, including the setting for his classic 1963 plea for civil rights, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” ....