• The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern...
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    Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's...
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    letter, written in response to "A Call for Unity" during the 1963 Birmingham campaign, was widely published, and became an important text for the civil...
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    Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋəm/ BUR-ming-əm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest...
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  • engaged in within Birmingham was crucial to the movement as the Birmingham campaign was seen as guidance for other cities in the South with regards to...
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    Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and a leader of the Birmingham campaign during the civil rights movement. The airport carries the designation...
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    Bull Connor (category Birmingham campaign)
    denied civil rights to black citizens, especially during 1963's Birmingham campaign led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He is well known...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Birmingham campaign)
    April 1963, the SCLC began a campaign against racial segregation and economic injustice in Birmingham, Alabama. The campaign used nonviolent but intentionally...
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    established in 2017 to preserve and commemorate the work of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and other Civil Rights Movement events and...
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    Fred Shuttlesworth (category Birmingham campaign)
    remained active in Birmingham. In 1963, he initiated and was instrumental in the Birmingham Campaign. He returned from Cincinnati to Birmingham after his retirement...
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    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (category Birmingham campaign)
    the subsequent Birmingham Campaign can be attributed to lessons learned in Albany. By contrast, the 1963 SCLC campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, was an...
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    racial segregation in the United States, and specifically the 1963 Birmingham campaign. The book describes 1963 as a landmark year in the civil rights movement...
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    blacklisted during the McCarthy era. During the 1963 Birmingham campaign, Belafonte bailed King out of the Birmingham, Alabama jail and raised $50,000 to release...
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    particular had become well known for his role in the Birmingham campaign and for his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Wilkins and Young initially objected to Rustin...
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    "sit-ins" in Greensboro and Nashville, a series of protests during the Birmingham campaign, and a march from Selma to Montgomery. At the culmination of a legal...
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  • A. D. King (category Birmingham campaign)
    1963, King became a leader of the Birmingham campaign, while pastoring at First Baptist Church of Ensley in Birmingham, Alabama. On May 11, 1963, King's...
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  • A. G. Gaston (category Birmingham campaign)
    Birmingham in 1962, Gaston used his position as a member of the board of trustees of the institution to dissuade them from continuing their campaign while...
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    Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the events and actions of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and others of the Civil Rights Movement...
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  • Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small...
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  • 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought...
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    as Birmingham Live. In 2023, BirminghamLive won in the communities and campaigning categories of the Regional Press Awards. In 2024, BirminghamLive became...
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  • The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out on 21 November 1974, when bombs exploded in two public houses in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and...
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    Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. The church served as headquarters from 1956 to 1961 for the...
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    The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter...
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    control (see also water cannon), including by Bull Connor in the Birmingham campaign against protesters during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Until...
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  • King's Birmingham campaign. Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Richard Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that...
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  • Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel...
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  • Rights Movement Birmingham campaign Mass racial violence in the United States Death spares scrutiny of Cash in bomb probe: The Birmingham News Archived...
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  • Project Birmingham is believed to have spent $100,000, as compared to total expenditures of roughly $51 million for the entire election campaign. Republican...
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    immediately fired by the all-white school board.[citation needed] After the Birmingham church bombing on September 15, 1963, which killed four black girls, black...
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