The Birmingham Times
Birmingham’s Linn Park, from the now defunct City Stages music festival to the recently removed Confederate monument, has seen its share of city history.
The seven-acre park that separates Birmingham City Hall and the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown also may also have been the site of the county’s first lynching, according to a local grass-roots coalition that documents racial terror.
The Jefferson County Memorial Project (JCMP), composed of over 40 community partners, researches the untold history of lynching in the county and the historical links among slavery, Jim Crow and present-day mass incarceration.
Their latest report, “Contested Terrain: A Historical Walk Through Birmingham’s Linn Park” was written by JCMP Fellows, a group of 20 college and graduate students from Birmingham-area colleges: Jefferson State Community College, Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
My Take: Celebrating Black History Month
My Take: Celebrating Black History Month By Jess Willis | February 26, 2021 at 10:07 PM EST - Updated February 26 at 11:27 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - We are celebrating Black History Month by highlighting several African Americans for their role in South Carolina’s history.
We begin with Frank B. Washington.
He is a 35-year veteran of the state Department of Education and one of the first African American administrators, overseeing the state’s black public schools.
Washington witnessed the widespread inequity in South Carolina’s public education system. His strengthened resolve to fight racial discrimination led Washington to become the leader of the Columbia NAACP for 16 years.
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A Southern Poverty Law Center report shows 168 symbols of the Confederacy were removed nationwide in 2020, including 24 in North Carolina. (Emily Leayman/Patch)
NORTH CAROLINA More Confederate monuments were removed in 2020 across the United States than during the five previous years combined, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in its most recent Whose Heritage? report that tracks public displays related to the Confederacy.
Ninety-four of the 168 Confederate symbols removed or renamed nationwide in 2020 were monuments, the report found. Fifty-eight were removed from 2015 to 2019.
In North Carolina, 24 Confederate symbols were removed throughout 2020, according to the Law Center.
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In June 2020, six monuments for Confederate soldiers, two monuments to the Confederacy, two monuments for Henry Lawson Wyatt, one George Davis statue and a North Carolina Women of the Confederacy Monument were removed.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. April hearing tentatively planned on appeal of Covington statue removal ruling Supporters of 114-year-old memorial hosting online and in-person fundraisers From left, county government attorney Megan Martin, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) attorney Kyle King, and Newton County resident Tiffany Humphries during a July 20, 2020, hearing on an injunction request from the SCV and Humphries in Superior Court in Covington. - photo by Tom Spigolon
COVINGTON, Ga. A tentative hearing date has been set for a state appeals court to hear arguments on a judge’s September ruling favoring the county government’s planned removal of a Confederate monument from the Covington Square.