‘When She Came In … I Took Her Hand in Mine and Asked Her to Marry Me’

Civil Rights March in Alabama

Through the 25th, Alabama state troopers and sheriffs deputies dispersed Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march with tear gas and billy clubs, Three white Unitarian ministers, including Rev. James J. Reeb, attacked on streets of Selma, Alabama. Reeb, who was participating in civil rights

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Mar

7

1965

Lewis, Carl

Lewis, Carl | FactMonster

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Where the Black Church Is in the Black Lives Matter Movement – Free Press of Jacksonville

“While you may have had many black pastors and clergy who may have shown up at events, and you may have had a lot of people from black churches who were at these marches and protests, from 2014 to the present, by and large, this has not been a theological movement,” said Watson Jones III, the

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Nat Cole Attacked

Singer Nat King Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites who were very intelligent.

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Apr

11

1956

List of African-American neighborhoods

List of African-American neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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‘You learn to love each other more as time goes on’

Rod came over for a house party hosted by one of his hometown friends from high school [in Anniston] who was a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. , original name Michael King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee), Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in

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Ku Klux Klan

KKK redirects here. The Ku Klux Klan (pronounced /ˈ k uː ˈ k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˈ k j uː/),[a] commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white

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Dec

24

1865

Danquah, J.B. (1895-1965)

Joseph Kwame Kyeretwei Boakye Danquah (Dankwa) was a Ghanaian lawyer, politician, and leader in that nation’s independence movement. He was born on December 18, 1895, to Emmanuel Yao Boakye and Lydia Okom Korantemaa in the town of Bepong in the Eastern Region of the Gold Coast (Ghana), then

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Feb

4

1965

Rev

Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth announced agreement on limited integration plan which ended the Birmingham demonstrations.

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May

10

1963

Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and

Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and Vice-presidential candidate of Progressive party, arrested in Birmingham for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for Negroes.

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May

1

1948

Hall, Stuart (1932-2014)

Stuart Hall was a leading 20th Century cultural theorist and a sociologist. Hall, widely known as a founder of British Cultural Studies and the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, pioneered theories of multiculturalism. He is generally credited with expanding the field of cultural studies to

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Feb

10

2014

UAB Doctor Raises Money to Create Face Shields in Zambia

Realizing that what was happening in the United States would eventually spread to Africa, he began thinking of ways to help frontline health care workers from his home in

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Birmingham’s mandatory face mask ordinance ends on Friday

The City of Birmingham will not extend its mandatory face covering ordinance beyond midnight on Friday, May 29, but that doesn’t mean citizens need to become complacent, said Mayor Randall

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Sewell, Terri (1965- )

Terryinca “Terri” Sewell, the current U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 7th district, was born January 1, 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama to Andrew and Nancy Sewell. Sewell grew up in Selma, Alabama where both of her parents were employed by the local school district. Her

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Nov

7

2010

Jefferson County DA Urges New Trial for Man on Alabama’s Death Row

Perhaps most significantly, Carr wrote that he had spoken with the lead trial prosecutor at Johnson’s trial, who “expressed concerns about this case” and supported the request for a new

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Social Movement

April 3, 1962. In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the Birmingham,AL, City Commission voted not to pay the citys $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP

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Apr

3

1962

Robert Edward Chambliss, a former KKK member is convicted of first degree murder

Robert Edward Chambliss, a former KKK member is convicted of first degree murder in connection with the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four African teenage women.

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Nov

18

1977

Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker , in full Margaret Abigail Walker, married name Margaret Alexander (born July 7, 1915, Birmingham, Ala., U.S.—died Nov. 30, 1998, Chicago, Ill.), American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th

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Jul

7

1915

Johnathan Austin, former Councilor, On How City Finally Removed Confederate Statue

The outrage over the death of George Floyd —a black man killed by police in Minneapolis—has already led to change in Birmingham, said former City Council President Johnathan

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The murder of Ahmaud Arbery — and our continuing terror

Two White men decided he was suspicious, hunted him down and shot him point blank in the middle of the street at 1 p.m. Local law enforcement had video evidence of the

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How Britain’s Musical Youth of ‘Pass The Dutchie’ song fame fizzled in 3 years after a global shine

Musical Youth, the child novelty act, had the good fortune of finding fame in England and America on the back of their smash hit “Pass The

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Tips for Children Wearing Masks During a Pandemic

As cities and states begin to reopen, people, including children, are being asked to wear masks when out in

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Martin Luther King Jr. 'Love Your Enemies' November 17, 1957

Martin Luther King The Three Evils of Society - Duration: 43:11. E. Joesph Doalmsavid 749,396 views

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Black mecca

A black mecca, in the United States, is a city to which African Americans, particularly professionals,[1] are drawn to live, due to some or all of the following

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Cole, Nat “King” (1919–1965)

Jazz pianist and popular singer Nathaniel Adams Coles was born into a musical family in Montgomery, Alabama on March 17, 1919. His mother Perlina was a choir director in his father Edward’s Baptist church. His three brothers, Edward, Ike, and Freddy, became professional musicians. Cole also had

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Feb

15

1965

Arrington, Richard (1934- )

Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in Livingston, Alabama on October 19, 1934 to sharecroppers. He received a Bachelors degree from Miles College (Alabama), a M.A. in Biology from the University of Detroit in Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Zoology and

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Oct

19

1934

Covid-19 could cancel 28 million surgeries

During the onset of the coronavirus in the country, elective surgeries across all government hospitals were suspended in March, forcing thousands of Kenyans in need of one or more of these scheduled surgeries to restore their lives to

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Civil Rights Timeline

The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned

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Miles College [Fairfield] (1905-- )

Miles College is a private, four-year Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Fairfield, Alabama, about six miles west of downtown Birmingham. The school was founded in 1905 by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now called Christian Methodist Episcopal Church or CME

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Oct

13

2006

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