The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was achieved by the Montgomery bus boycott, the Birmingham boycott, and other local boycotts.
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Negro Leagues honored at renovated Rickwood Field
Rising-Birmingham resident Jeffery has expressed disappointment in the lack of attention given to the neighborhood surrounding Rickwood Field.
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MLB game at Rickwood Field honored Negro Leagues and Black players
The week-long series of events in Birmingham honored the Negro Leagues, with a Willie Mays documentary, youth baseball, a celebrity softball game.
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Four Little Girls
‘Those girls—they didn’t live their lives because of the color of our skin.’
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60th anniversary of Birmingham church bombing unites families of victims and perpetrators
Despite being born on opposite sides of one of the most heinous events of the civil rights movement, McNair and Fields shared a common goal: to speak out against hate.
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Baseball in Birmingham: Rickwood Field is living history
‘The Negro Leagues produced champions in more ways than one.’
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Gone but not forgotten: four little girls killed in church bombing
Spike Lee’s film 4 Little Girls (1997) documented in vivid detail the events leading up to and following the September 15, 1963 bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Ku Klux Klan members placed bombs at the church, where, at the time, a strategy meeting was being held for local Blacks to […]