Topics covered: merger controversy; school integration plan; record budget sent to City Council; industrial site survey submitted; black protest of school integration plan. These scrapbooks, compiled by the Birmingham City Council, contain newspaper clippings relating to Birmingham and the City Council.

Microfilm (source)

Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)

1964

Topics covered: Annexation proposals; budget; public schools desegregation controversy; formation of Community Affairs Committee; repeal of city segreationg ordinances, 7/23/63; "breach of peace law" adopted, 7/24/63; problems with transit system. These scrapbooks, compiled by the Birmingham City Council, contain newspaper clippings relating to Birmingham and the City Council.

Microfilm (source)

Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)

1963

Topics covered: Budget problems; Domick Bill; transit system problems; Loveman's "bombing"; threats on the life of Mayor Boutwell; Arthur D. Shores' home bombed, 8/21/63; annexation; school desegregation problems; bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 8/16/63; Royall-Blaik fact-finding team. These scrapbooks, compiled by the Birmingham City Council, contain newspaper clippings relating to Birmingham and the City Council.

Microfilm (source)

Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)

1963

Topics covered: Shuttlesworth sues Birmingham for integration of schools and parks; Civil Rights Commission demands voting records of several counties; George Wallace defiance; President Eisenhower's "message" to Alabama; Registrars ordered to testify to Civil Rights Commission; Montgomery closes public parks. These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Birmingham Public Library, contain newspaper clippings relating to the Civil Rights Movement. The clippings are arranged in three subject areas: national civil rights events, Alabama events, and Mississippi events. The clippings are arranged chronologically within the subject areas.

Microfilm (source)

Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)

1958; 1959; 1960

Black and white photograph.

Portraits Collection 1557. Archives Department. (source)

Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)

Birmingham, Alabama. Police Department Surveillance Files, 1947-1980, Archives Collection (source)

Birmingham Post-Herald (publisher)

1963-09-16