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Birmingham, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Jefferson, Shelby. Associated ZIP codes: 35201, 35202, 35203, 35204, 35205, 35206, 35207, 35208, 35209, 35210, 35211, 35212, 35213, 35214, 35215, 35216, 35217, 35218, 35219, 35220, 35221, 35222, 35223, 35224, 35226, 35228, 35229, 35231, 35232, 35233, 35234, 35235, 35236, 35237, 35238, 35242, 35243, 35244, 35246, 35249, 35253, 35254, 35255, 35259, 35260, 35261, 35266, 35270, 35282, 35283, 35285, 35287, 35288, 35290, 35291, 35292, 35293, 35294, 35295, 35296, 35297, 35298.
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The Urban League of Alabama joined Free Da Streetz Birmingham and other activists Monday afternoon for a community action rally to speak out against violence...
One person was killed and at least eight others were injured in two shootings near the Magic City Classic football game in Birmingham, Alabama, police said.
A mass shooting outside the “Magic City Classic" football game Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama, left one person dead and eight other people injured.
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A shooting near Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, after the Magic City Classic college football game left one person dead and eight wounded, authorities s...
Police in Birmingham, Ala., reported a mass shooting outside Legion Field after the annual
LSU’s two basketball programs will not make the trip to Birmingham, Alabama, for 2027 SEC Media Days because fog in the Baton Rouge area did not allow thei...
Rather than stand up for editorial independence, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his “Gulf of America.”
BIRMINGHAM, AL — Furnace Fest returns to the historic Sloss Furnaces in less than two weeks, October 10 + 11, 2026, for another massive weekend celebrating...
On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three...
The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday amended its lawsuit against LSU in a Birmingham, Alabama, federal court to say its member schools will meet Thursday t...
Sports columnist Scott Rabalais with three things we learned from Southern’s game Saturday against Alabama State in Birmingham, Alabama, the Jaguars’ fir...
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Birmingham is in Shelby County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
35201, 35202, 35203, 35204, 35205, 35206, 35207, 35208, 35209, 35210, 35211, 35212, 35213, 35214, 35215, 35216, 35217, 35218, 35219, 35220, 35221, 35222, 35223, 35224, 35226, 35228, 35229, 35231, 35232, 35233, 35234, 35235, 35236, 35237, 35238, 35242, 35243, 35244, 35246, 35249, 35253, 35254, 35255, 35259, 35260, 35261, 35266, 35270, 35282, 35283, 35285, 35287, 35288, 35290, 35291, 35292, 35293, 35294, 35295, 35296, 35297, 35298
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Birmingham lies in country that belonged to the Muscogee Confederacy; the best-known Native settlement in the area in the 19th century was the Upper Creek town of Tvlwv Haco, "Crazy Town." The city was founded on June 1, 1871, by the Elyton Land Company, whose investors included planters, bankers and railroad men. It sold lots near the planned crossing of the Alabama and Chattanooga and the South and North Alabama railroads, close to deposits of iron ore, coal and limestone, the three raw materials of steel, and the founders named it for the English industrial city to advertise their plans. Cholera and the Wall Street crash of 1873 slowed it at first, but it soon grew so fast that it was nicknamed "The Magic City." In 1911 Elyton and other nearby towns were absorbed into the city, and four office towers built between 1902 and 1912 at 20th Street and 1st Avenue North were called "The Heaviest Corner on Earth."
The Depression hit Birmingham especially hard, and New Deal workers built Vulcan's tower and Oak Mountain State Park; World War II steel demand brought prosperity back. In the 1950s and 1960s the city became a center of the civil rights struggle, led locally by the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth amid so many racist bombings that it was called "Bombingham." In 1963 Shuttlesworth invited Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to join Project C; marches that April and May, led by James Bevel, met police dogs, fire hoses and more than 3,000 arrests, most of them of high school students. Jailed for protesting, King wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on April 16, 1963. The campaign won the desegregation of public accommodations in Birmingham and helped bring the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On September 15, 1963, a bomb planted at the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four Black girls. In the 1970s urban renewal centered on the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which grew into a major medical and research center. Sources Wikipedia: Birmingham, Alabama
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