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.
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.
Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama,United States,on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-most populous city,it had an estimated population of 110,602 in 2023. It was known as Tuskaloosa until the early 20th century. It is also known as "the Druid City" because of the numerous water oaks planted in its downtown streets since the 1840s.
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.
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 1988 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8,1988. All fifty states,and the District of Columbia,were part of the 1988 presidential election. Alabama voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College,which selected the president and vice president. Alabama was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas,who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President,and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen.
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.
Steven L. Reed is an American jurist,politician,and the mayor of Montgomery,Alabama. A member of the Democratic Party,he was a probate judge in Montgomery County. Reed is the first black mayor of Montgomery.
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.
The 2021 Birmingham mayoral election was held on August 24,2021,to elect the mayor of Birmingham,Alabama. Incumbent Democratic mayor Randall Woodfin was re-elected to a second term.
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.
Travis Hendrix is an American politician and police officer. He is a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives,representing District 55.
