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Book Synopsis Birmingham Up Town Through Time by : Ted Rudge
Download or read book Birmingham Up Town Through Time written by Ted Rudge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Birmingham Up Town has changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book Birmingham written by Carl Chinn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Book Synopsis Birmingham Then and Now by : Todd Keith
Download or read book Birmingham Then and Now written by Todd Keith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its official founding in 1871, Birmingham, Alabama, has been known by many names, including "The Magic City" and "Little Birmy," but today it's best remembered as the epicenter of the American Civil Rights Movement. Discover Birmingham's rise as a Southern industrial power, its role during the turbulent '60s, and its rebirth in the 21st century in Birmingham Then & Now.- See the city's most popular sites, including Jemison's House, Vulcan Park , Red Mountain, and the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse where the Reverend Martin Luther King called for an end to segregation.- Pay a sobering visit to the 16th Street Baptist Church, the site of a bombing that killed four little girls in 1963 and became the turning point in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Though the bomb ripped a hole in the back of the building and destroyed all but one window, the church has been restored and remains an important monument in American history.- Investigate "The Heaviest Corner on Earth," located at 20th Street and First Avenue, where, in the early 20th century, four of the tallest buildings in the South quickly sprang up, solidifying Birmingham's reputation as the Magic City. See how these giants of their day compare to today's skyscrapers.-Meet "Miss Blanche," proprietor of Madame Bernard's Brothel--reputed to be the best house in town. Her next-door neighbor, "Old Lady Barfield" ran a brothel of her own. See these houses of ill repute in all of their then-and-now glory.
Book Synopsis Around Hockley Through Time by : Ted Rudge
Download or read book Around Hockley Through Time written by Ted Rudge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hockley has changed and developed over the last century.
Book Synopsis Digbeth, Deritend & Highgate Through Time by : Ted Rudge
Download or read book Digbeth, Deritend & Highgate Through Time written by Ted Rudge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Digbeth, Deritend & Highgate have changed and developed over the last century.
Book Synopsis Lee Bank to Attwood Green Through Time by : Ted Rudge
Download or read book Lee Bank to Attwood Green Through Time written by Ted Rudge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Lee Bank has changed and developed over the last century into Attwood Green.
Book Synopsis The Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time by : R. H. Davies
Download or read book The Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time written by R. H. Davies and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Birmingham Canal Navigations have changed and developed over the last century.
Book Synopsis Letter from Birmingham Jail by : MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Download or read book Stigma Cities written by Jonathan Foster and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from behavior and events that fell outside accepted norms. He wanted to know how such stigmas changed over time and how they affected a city’s reputation and residents. Those questions led to this examination of the role of stigma and history in three very different cities: Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. In the era of civil rights, Birmingham became known as “Bombingham,” a place of constant reactionary and racist violence. Las Vegas emerged as the nation’s most recognizable Sin City, and San Francisco’s tolerance of homosexuality made it the perceived capital of Gay America. Stigma Cites shows how cultural and political trends influenced perceptions of disrepute in these cities, and how, in turn, their status as sites of vice and violence influenced development decisions, from Birmingham’s efforts to shed its reputation as racist, to San Francisco’s transformation of its stigma into a point of pride, to Las Vegas’s use of gambling to promote tourism and economic growth. The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster’s innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why. An absorbing work of history and urban sociology, the book illuminates the significance of perceptions in shaping metropolitan history.
Book Synopsis Wolverhampton Railways Through Time by : Mike Hitches
Download or read book Wolverhampton Railways Through Time written by Mike Hitches and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Wolverhampton's railways have changed and developed over the last century
Book Synopsis The Boys of Birmingham by : P. L. Ryan
Download or read book The Boys of Birmingham written by P. L. Ryan and published by P. L. Ryan. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know how they caught Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s killer? This book is the FBI memoirs of William Saucier, lead field agent in charge of the Birmingham investigation of King's assassination. This book shows how without Saucier's work, MLK's killer would never have been caught, and it also features new info on President Kennedy's assassination and new stories about J. Edgar Hoover!
Download or read book Doc written by Frank Adams and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself. Doc tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his musical apprenticeship under John T. “Fess” Whatley and his time touring with Sun Ra and Duke Ellington to his own inspiring work as an educator and bandleader. Central to this narrative is the often-overlooked story of Birmingham’s unique jazz tradition and community. From the very beginnings of jazz, Birmingham was home to an active network of jazz practitioners and a remarkable system of jazz apprenticeship rooted in the city’s segregated schools. Birmingham musicians spread across the country to populate the sidelines of the nation’s bestknown bands. Local musicians, like Erskine Hawkins and members of his celebrated orchestra, returned home heroes. Frank “Doc” Adams explores, through first-hand experience, the history of this community, introducing readers to a large and colorful cast of characters—including “Fess” Whatley, the legendary “maker of musicians” who trained legions of Birmingham players and made a significant mark on the larger history of jazz. Adams’s interactions with the young Sun Ra, meanwhile, reveal life-changing lessons from one of American music’s most innovative personalities. Along the way, Adams reflects on his notable family, including his father, Oscar, editor of the Birmingham Reporter and an outspoken civic leader in the African American community, and Adams’s brother, Oscar Jr., who would become Alabama’s first black supreme court justice. Adams’s story offers a valuable window into the world of Birmingham’s black middle class in the days before the civil rights movement and integration. Throughout, Adams demonstrates the ways in which jazz professionalism became a source of pride within this community, and he offers his thoughts on the continued relevance of jazz education in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England by : Dr Leslie Rosenthal
Download or read book The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England written by Dr Leslie Rosenthal and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues arising from these events are well-known, little is known about how the British legal process coped with the everyday strains that emerged from the unprecedented scale of these changes. This book explores the river pollution dilemma faced by the British courts during the second half of the nineteenth century when the legal process had to confront the new incompatible realities arising from the increasing amounts of untreatable waste flowing into the rivers. This dilemma struck at the heart of both Victorian urban and rural society, as the necessary sanitary reformation of the swelling cities and expanding industry increasingly poisoned the rivers, threatening the countryside and agricultural rents and livelihoods. Focusing on ten legal disputes, the book investigates the dilemma that faced the courts; namely how to protect the traditional and valued rights of landholders whose rivers and lands were being polluted by industrial waste and untreated sewage, whilst not hindering the progress of sanitary reform and economic progress in the towns. The case studies considered involve major industrialising centres, such as Birmingham, Leeds, Northampton, Wolverhampton and Barnsley, but also include smaller towns such as Tunbridge Wells, Leamington Spa and Harrogate. The fundamental issues raised remain as important today as they did in Victorian times. The need for the courts to balance a variety of conflicting needs and rights within the limits of contemporary technological capabilities often played out in surprising ways, with outcomes not always in line with theoretical expectations. As such the historical context of the disputes provide fascinating insights into nineteenth-century legal process, and the environmental and social attitudes of the times.
Download or read book Carry Me Home written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.
Book Synopsis The Most Segregated City in America" by : Charles E. Connerly
Download or read book The Most Segregated City in America" written by Charles E. Connerly and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2006 "But for Birmingham," Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to meet with him, "we would not be here today." Birmingham is well known for its civil rights history, particularly for the violent white-on-black bombings that occurred there in the 1960s, resulting in the city’s nickname "Bombingham." What is less well known about Birmingham’s racial history, however, is the extent to which early city planning decisions influenced and prompted the city’s civil rights protests. The first book-length work to analyze this connection, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980 uncovers the impact of Birmingham’s urban planning decisions on its black communities and reveals how these decisions led directly to the civil rights movement. Spanning over sixty years, Charles E. Connerly’s study begins in the 1920s, when Birmingham used urban planning as an excuse to implement racial zoning laws, pointedly sidestepping the 1917 U.S. Supreme Court Buchanan v. Warley decision that had struck down racial zoning. The result of this obstruction was the South’s longest-standing racial zoning law, which lasted from 1926 to 1951, when it was redeclared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite the fact that African Americans constituted at least 38 percent of Birmingham’s residents, they faced drastic limitations to their freedom to choose where to live. When in the1940s they rebelled by attempting to purchase homes in off-limit areas, their efforts were labeled as a challenge to city planning, resulting in government and court interventions that became violent. More than fifty bombings ensued between 1947 and 1966, becoming nationally publicized only in 1963, when four black girls were killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Connerly effectively uses Birmingham’s history as an example to argue the importance of recognizing the link that exists between city planning and civil rights. His demonstration of how Birmingham’s race-based planning legacy led to the confrontations that culminated in the city’s struggle for civil rights provides a fresh lens on the history and future of urban planning, and its relation to race.
Book Synopsis Underground Birmingham by : JEFF E. NEWMAN
Download or read book Underground Birmingham written by JEFF E. NEWMAN and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Central City's Joy and Pain by : Jerome E. Morris
Download or read book Central City's Joy and Pain written by Jerome E. Morris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
