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.
Birmingham City Schools is a public school district that serves the US city of Birmingham,Alabama. It is the fourth-largest school system in Alabama behind Mobile County Public School System,Jefferson County School System,and Montgomery Public Schools. It currently enrolls approximately 25,000 students across 42 schools.
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.
Gilbert Roland Hill was an American politician,police officer,and actor,who was the President of the Detroit City Council. He gained recognition for his role as Inspector Todd in the Beverly Hills Cop film series. He was the runner-up in the 2001 Detroit mayoral election,losing to Kwame Kilpatrick.
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.
George G. Seibels Jr.,was the first Republican to serve as the mayor of Birmingham,Alabama. Seibels was born in 1913 in Coronado,California. He was the son of Rear Admiral George Seibels,Sr.,of Montgomery,Alabama,and a great-grandson of George Goldthwaite,former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a United States senator.
David Johnson Vann was mayor of Birmingham,Alabama.
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.
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.
African Americans in Alabama or Black Alabamians are residents of the state of Alabama who are of African American ancestry. They have a history in Alabama from the era of slavery through the Civil War,emancipation,the Reconstruction era,resurgence of white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws,the Civil Right movement,into recent decades. According to the 2020 Census,approximately 25.8% of Alabama's population is African American.
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.
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.
The 1969 Detroit mayoral election took place on November 4,1969. It saw the election of Roman Gribbs. The election was historic for Richard H. Austin being the first Black individual to advance to a Detroit mayoral general election.
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.
