One thing that sets Birmingham apart from the other cities is that everything centered around civil rights was really centered around people — and not just one person, but a series of people.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — He came to historic Temple Beth-El to tell his story, which is also the congregation’s story: How, during the early turbulence of the Civil Rights era, he helped to foil ...

It also included $100,000 for the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum. Both items were zeroed out in Ivey’s proposed budget for next year and in the substitute approved by the House budget committee ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and ...

PBS’s “Eyes on the Prize,” a documentary about Civil Rights events in Birmingham, is paused on the television set at the front. A family friend, “Cherry,” sets up three tables: ...

American civil rights leader Malcolm X at an outdoor rally, in New York City. Getty Images 4. Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper turned fierce voting rights activist ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...

This is an opinion column. You still feel something. Walk through and around Kelly Ingram Park, just a few strides from Birmingham’s downtown core. You still feel what happened there. You still ...

Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, spoke out on the Senate floor about the elimination of funding for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Magic City Classic football game, and several ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...