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Jefferson County Memorial Project's searing report on Linn Park's racial history


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 (UA ....

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Autherine Lucy Foster integrated The University of Alabama 65 years ago today


Autherine Lucy Foster integrated The University of Alabama 65 years ago today
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
The night before a 26-year-old secretary from Birmingham was set to enroll as the first Black student in The University of Alabama’s 124 years of existence, four crosses were burned on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Autherine Lucy made history the next day, Feb. 1, 1956, when she successfully enrolled at the university after a three-year federal court battle.
Minutes later, Lucy was informed that the board of trustees would not allow her to stay in a dormitory or eat in the cafeteria because her presence “might endanger the safety or result in sociological disadvantage to the students.” ....

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