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Associated Grocers of the South was founded in 1927 by 13 local grocery store owners from Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. Led by Larry Grimes, they chose to establish a retailers' cooperative to compete against the emerging chain stores. The organization has expanded from 2,500 square feet (230 m 2) of public warehouse to now having ...
The Birmingham Civil Rights District is an area of downtown Birmingham, Alabama where several significant events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s took place. The district was designated by the City of Birmingham in 1992 and covers a six-block area.
The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument is a United States National Monument in Birmingham, Alabama 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 actions. The monument is administered by the National Park Service.
Birmingham, Alabama: Downtown Saks & Co. Birmingham: Mar 1900 or before: closed Norfolk, Virginia Downtown Saks & Co. Norfolk: Mar 14, 1900: Sep 1919: Sixth city with a Saks store. Branded "Saks and Co." as well as "The Saks Store". 100 Main Street. Expanded March 15, 1900 to two floors at 234-6-8 Main Street.
Birmingham, Alabama / Charlotte, North Carolina May 12, 2011 ( 2011-05-12 ) Detectives Eric Torrence and Henry Lucas investigate the murder of a 31-year-old male found dead in a field, but with a tight-lipped community where street law is paramount, finding someone to talk is the team's biggest challenge.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the events and actions of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and others of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group.
A 36-foot-tall (11 m) bronze replica, accurately based on Bartholdi's Liberty Enlightening the World, stands in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. It was cast in 1956 at the Société Antoine Durenne foundry in Somerville, Haut Marne, France, for placement in 1958 atop the Liberty National Life Insurance Company building in ...