In 1963, not long after the official opening of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, a new feature was added: A working clock made of flowers. It was modeled on a clock in Canada and was the first of its ...

In 2023, the city of Birmingham will devote the year to commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Birmingham civil rights movement. The year of tribute will be a collaboration with area churches, ...

In November 1963, The Beatles created one of their most enduring images at the Birmingham Hippodrome, where they were ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On a sunny, breezy afternoon Paulette Roby shows visitors the way to Kelly Ingram Park, proudly pointing out Black-owned businesses along the way, including barber shops and ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy asked Congress Thursday for a series of new laws to protect Negroes from "the cruel disease of discrimination" in voting, schooling, and other walks ...

Turning point of the civil rights movement. Nineteen sixty-three was the pivotal year of the civil rights movement. In a city named Birmingham, where little of note had happened before and nothing ...

A claim making the rounds online in November 2025 purported that fire hoses mysteriously turned off or ran dry during the high-profile Civil Rights Movement protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in May ...

Christmas in 1960s Birmingham occupies a special corner of memory, wrapped in the glow of streetlights reflected on wet pavements, with shopping trips to city centre department storesFor many Brummies ...