Birmingham (Alabama)

Birmingham is largest Ville of the state of the Alabama, with the the United States. Birmingham is the chief town of the county of Jefferson, but of the portions of the city are also located in the Comté of Shelby. Founded in 1871 after the American Civil War, as an industrial company, its name comes from Birmingham, the principal industrial town of England.

The city had a population of 242.820 with the census of 2000, the estimate of 2003 indicates a fall (236 620 inhabitants) and that of 2005 indicates 233.148 inhabitants. However Birmingham is the core of a known urban surface under the name of Grand Birmingham ( Birmingham Hoover - Culmann Metropolitan Statistical Area ) including/understanding 1.170.012 inhabitants. Many groups qualified these last years the city as being one of most pleasant where to live in the country.

History

Birmingham was founded on June 1st 1871 by the property developers who sold batches of ground close to the crossing envisaged of the railroads of the companies Alabama & Chattanooga and South & North. The place sheltered Minerai, coal and Calcaire - principal materials used to make Acier - with a remarkable proximity is almost single in the world. Since the departure the new city was thus arranged as a great center of industry but knew slow beginnings because of the Choléra and of the crash landing of Wall Street of 1873, after which it started to develop quickly.

In the Years 1950 and 1960 Birmingham drew the attention of the whole world to be become the center of the combat for the civic rights of the Afro-américain S. the decisive point of this movement arrived in 1963 when Martin Luther King, imprisoned to have taken share with a non-violent protest, wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail , today celebrates. Brimingham is also famous for the business of the bomb which arrived later this same year and which caused the death of four black girls. In 2006, the newspaper Birmingham News published one upsetting series of photographs on this city with beginning of the year 60. And the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the militant Communist Angela Davis grew in Birmingham during this time.

As in other industrial towns of the country, the population in the city itself decreased during the last decades. It was of 340  887 in 1960 and of 242  820 in 2000, is a loss from approximately 29%. However the growth of its suburbs during the same period made it possible the population of the urban surface to increase.

In 1971 the city celebrated its centenary with a series of restorations of public buildings, of which the Vulcan Park. The city elects its first mayor Afro-American, Dr. Richard Arrington Junior, in 1979.

During the 20th century, whereas industry declined in the whole of the nation, the saving in Birmingham knew to diversify successfully. Although industry represents a strong sector of it, Birmingham is also a research center medical and a regional of editor and banking capacity very extremely. The city counts several universities, including three very respected establishments: the Samford university (deprived, of confession Baptist), the Birmingham-Southern university (private, of confession Méthodiste but of tradition laic) and the university of Alabama in Birmingham (known as “UAB”, university of State). The university of Alabama in Birmingham belongs to the research centres medical more the advances of the world. Its medical school was classified 23e on the national plan in 2006.

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External bonds

  • the official site of the city
  • Daily tourism
  • of information

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