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Spring In Oak Mountian,Alabama near Birmingham. A city of north-central Alabama northeast of Tuscaloosa. The largest city in the state, it is in a mining and industrial region. Population, 265,900+
In 1870 the modern city was founded at the intersection of two newly constructed railroads and named (for Birmingham, England) by a land company. The city was incorporated in 1871. After 1899, when steel was first manufactured, the city grew rapidly as an industrial center. In the 1960s, as one of the South's most segregated cities, it was a focus of civil rights activities. In early 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders organized large demonstrations at lunch counters and other sites to protest racial discrimination. When city police attacked the peaceful demonstrators with police dogs and fire hoses, media coverage triggered a national outcry. Here King wrote his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail," which set forth his theory of nonviolent direct action. |
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A state of the southeastern United States. It was admitted as the 22nd state in 1819. Montgomery is the capital and Birmingham the largest city. Population, 4,062,600+. |
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