Jefferson County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama,located in the central portion of the state. As of the 2020 census,its population was 674,721. Its county seat is Birmingham. Its rapid growth as an industrial city in the 20th century,based on heavy manufacturing in steel and iron,established its dominance. Jefferson County is the central county of the Birmingham-Hoover,AL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County,Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2023 census estimates,Birmingham had a population of 196,910 down 2% from the 2020 census,making it Alabama's second-most populous city after Huntsville. The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289,and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 47th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South,Piedmont,and Appalachian regions of the nation.
Mountain Brook is a city in southeastern Jefferson County,Alabama,United States,and a suburb of Birmingham. Its population at the 2020 census was 22,461.
Livingston is a city in and the county seat of Sumter County,Alabama,United States and the home of the University of West Alabama. By an act of the state legislature,it was incorporated on January 10,1835. At the 2010 census the population was 3,485,up from 3,297 in 2000. It was named in honor of Edward Livingston,of the Livingston family of New York.
LaGrange is a city in and the county seat of Troup County,Georgia,United States. The population of the city was estimated to be 30,858 in 2020 by the U.S. Census Bureau. It is the principal city of the LaGrange,Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area,which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville,Georgia-Alabama (part) combined statistical area. It is about 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Atlanta and located in the foothills of the Georgia Piedmont.
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor was an American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham,Alabama,for more than two decades. A member of the Democratic Party,he strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Under the city commission government,Connor had responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department,which also had their own chiefs.
Larry Paul Langford was an American politician who had a one-term tenure as the mayor of the city of Birmingham,Alabama. At the time of his death,Langford was hospitalized on compassionate release from serving a 15-year federal prison sentence.
Arthur George Gaston was an American entrepreneur who established businesses in Birmingham,Alabama. He had a significant role in the movement to remove legal barriers to integration in Birmingham in 1963. In his lifetime,Gaston's companies were some of the most prominent African-American businesses in the American South.
Miles College is a private historically black college in Fairfield,Alabama. Founded in 1898,it is associated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the United Negro College Fund.
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.
J. L. Chestnut Jr. was an author,attorney,and a figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He was the first African-American attorney in Selma,Alabama,and the author of the 1991 autobiographical book,Black in Selma:The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut,Jr.,which chronicles the history of the Selma Voting Rights Movement,including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches and Bloody Sunday.
David Johnson Vann was mayor of Birmingham,Alabama.
Clarence H. Mullins was an American jurist from the state of Alabama. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama from 1943 until his death in 1957. He was the Chief Judge of the District court from 1948 until he assumed senior status in 1953 as a result of disability. Mullins was notable for his rulings in the 1940s in favor of desegregation,especially in housing discrimination.
The Birmingham Police Department (BPD) is the police department of the city of Birmingham,Alabama,in the United States. The department operates in an area of 148.61 square miles across two counties (384.91 km2) and a population of 212,237 people.
The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) was an American civil rights organization in Birmingham,Alabama,which coordinated boycotts and sponsored federal lawsuits aimed at dismantling segregation in Birmingham and Alabama during the civil rights movement. Fred Shuttlesworth,pastor of Bethel Baptist Church,served as president of the group from its founding in 1956 until 1969. The ACMHR's crowning moment came during the pivotal Birmingham campaign which it coordinated along with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the spring of 1963.
Demetrius Caiphus Newton was an American civil rights attorney and politician. He filed lawsuits to end segregation,and represented Martin Luther King Jr.,Rosa Parks,and others in cases related to civil rights. He then served in the Alabama House of Representatives,representing the 53rd district,from 1986 to his death in 2013. He became the first Black speaker pro tempore in the history of the Alabama House,serving in the role from 1998 through 2010.
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States,a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for people of color. The goals of the movement included securing equal protection under the law,ending legally institutionalized racial discrimination,and gaining equal access to public facilities,education reform,fair housing,and the ability to vote.
Randall Woodfin is an American lawyer and politician who is the 34th and current mayor of Birmingham,Alabama,after winning the October 3,2017,runoff against incumbent William A. Bell. He previously served as president of the Birmingham City School Board (2013–2015) and as a city attorney of Birmingham from 2009–2017.
Johnnie Johnson Jr. is a former police officer. Johnson was the second black police officer on the Birmingham,Alabama police force and the first black officer to become chief of police in Birmingham.
