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Elmwood Cemetery (also known as Elm Leaf Cemetery) is a 326 acres (132 ha) cemetery established in 1900 (as Elm Leaf Cemetery) in Birmingham, Alabama northwest of Homewood by a group of fraternal organizations. It was renamed in 1906 and gradually eclipsed Oak Hill Cemetery as the most prominent burial place in the city.
Louise Wooster. / 33.52556°N 86.81667°W / 33.52556; -86.81667. Louise Catharine Wooster (June 12, 1842 – May 16, 1913), [1] better known as Lou Wooster, was a famous madam in Birmingham, Alabama. [2] Her colorful character and her care for the sick and dying during the cholera epidemic of 1873 endeared her to the Birmingham ...
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Eyes on the Prize (1987) Freedom Riders (2010) Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth (born Freddie Lee Robinson, March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011) was an American civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...
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Abbeville, Alabama, U.S. Occupation. Sharecropper [1] Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017) [2] : 297 was an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States. In the 1940s, Taylor's refusal to remain silent ...
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Theophilus Eugene " Bull " Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973) was an American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. A member of the Democratic Party, he strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Under the city commission government, Connor had ...