On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. penned his epic “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” He had been arrested on the Good Friday before, while taking part in a peaceful civil-rights protest. King sent ...

Birmingham's venerable public library is answering the call and reaching out -- delivering sought-after research to women from California to Tennessee to Florida on topics ranging from immigration to ...

In the years since Civil Rights history has become a significant part of Birmingham’s identity as it has in the state of Alabama as a whole. BIRMINGHAM, AL-The Birmingham Public Library Annual Report ...

Library Of Birmingham View Of The Raging Bull in Centenary Square The city's flagship £188 million Library of Birmingham is opening on Sunday (August 7) to take advantage of the thousands of people ...

The largest Shakespeare collection in a public library is launching Everything to Everybody, with films and readings in most of the city’s 93 languages It is a little-known fact that Birmingham is ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Black Army veteran who helped peacefully desegregate an Alabama city’s library with a sit-in protest in 1963 has died, according to the library and an obituary published by ...

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Birmingham’s new mega-library might be the last of its kind. But that won’t stop it from becoming a great public building, writes Jay Merrick. Photography by Christian Richters There is a modestly ...

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