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The Friends Foundation of the Birmingham Public Library will host a book sale at the Central Library location later this ...
The Birmingham Public Library is celebrating Black History Month with more than 70 programs, exhibits and displays at branch locations including the central library downtown. Avondale branch ...
and Martin Luther King Jr. before their arrest in Birmingham (Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library; Deborah Fallows) There have been a few times during our travels across the country for the ...
The Birmingham Public Library and its branches will host several free events in December 2012. Thanks to Chanda Temple for putting this list together: *Sunday, Dec. 2 - Open house and tablescape ...
Lumpklin is looking to follow her aunt Sundra Escott Russell, the first African American woman elected to the Alabama Senate.
"Those responses prompted her to file suit." ABCNews.com made numerous calls to the central branch of the Birmingham Public Library and to its administration, and to the press office at City Hall ...
"People risked their lives here," says Jim Baggett, archivist for the Birmingham Public Library. Baggett says the violence and brutality of the police here focused the country on what needed to ...
More: Michigan towns show off their coolness with public art The display didn't cost city taxpayers a dime. Bloom made that promise in his presentation in April to the Birmingham library board ...
Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed Europe's largest public library in Birmingham, England, with a sunken amphitheatre, rooftop gardens and a shimmering facade clad with interlocking metal rings ...
The controversial demolition of Birmingham's Central Library begins on Monday ... become a semi-circular debating chamber surrounded by public viewing galleries and rooms for elected members.