during the American Civil Rights Movement, Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, turned away a wounded Freedom rider, but treated the man who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church?
when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite?
Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has a doctorate in zoology?
Jody Trautwein, who attempted to convert Sasha Baron Cohen's character Brüno from his gay lifestyle, recently ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama?
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield?
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights secretary Lola Hendricks applied personally to public safety commissioner Bull Connor for permission to demonstrate in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1963 Birmingham Campaign?
Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?