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Birmingham
Unfortunately, we don't have much English information about Birmingham, but we have more information in other languages German, French, Italian, Spanish. Here is the automatic translation by Google:
Alabama's largest city (270 000 Ew.) Is one of the best examples of the transformation of the South. 1871 on iron and coal deposits founded, it was thanks to its steel industry as the Pittsburgh of the South, as well as the Johannesburg of America - because of racial segregation. In 1963, here the "Project C" (for confrontation) is started, in which thousands of civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested. Center of protest was the 16th St. Baptist Church (between ...
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sight Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
Located in the historic Carver Theater, provides museum dedicated to all the jazz greats who came from Alabama, or have played here long. Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and others are i...
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sight Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
On 15 September 1963, shortly before the church clock at 11 am, exploded from a Ku Klux Klan bomb laid. They killed four little black girls. This as the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing in Amer...
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