The Birmingham Americans were a professional American football team located in Birmingham, Alabama. They were members of the four-team Central Division...

Black Americans joined the migration of residents from rural areas to the city for its opportunities. The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Birmingham especially...

Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋəm/ BUR-ming-əm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest...

thousands of African Americans dressed for Good Friday looked on. King was met with unusually harsh conditions in the Birmingham jail. An ally smuggled...

"1970s Team of the Decade." Birmingham Americans 1975 World Football League season 1975 in sports "New name for the old Americans". Gadsden Times. Associated...

Gil Birmingham (born July 13, 1953)[citation needed] is an American actor known for his role as Tribal Chairman Thomas Rainwater in the Paramount Network's...

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small...

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 is a historical-fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. First published in 1995 by Delacorte Press, it was reprinted...

(Shreveport Steamer), Larry Matson (Birmingham Americans/Birmingham Vulcans), Fred Sington (Birmingham Americans/Birmingham Vulcans) and Eddie Doucette and...

The Birmingham Squadron are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Birmingham, Alabama, and are affiliated with the New...

(SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth...

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 1969 in the University of Alabama System...

The demography of Birmingham, England, is analysed by the Office for National Statistics and data produced for each of the wards that make up the city...

The Birmingham metropolitan area, sometimes known as Greater Birmingham, is a metropolitan area in north central Alabama centered on Birmingham, Alabama...

Shuttlesworth, an African American minister who helped lead 52 African Americans in an orderly civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. He was...

Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport (IATA: BHM, ICAO: KBHM, FAA LID: BHM), formerly Birmingham Municipal Airport and later Birmingham International...

back who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Oilers, and Birmingham Americans. In 2022, Robinson began promoting his gourmet, Texas-based dijon...

Birmingham–Southern College (BSC) is a private liberal arts college in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 1856, the college is affiliated with the United...

Birmingham, American boxing trainer DeCori Birmingham, American football player Edward de Birmingham (died bef. 1538), last member of the Birmingham family...

one yard. In 1974, he played for the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League, where he helped the Americans win the WFL’s only championship game...

Birmingham Legion FC is an American professional soccer club based in Birmingham, Alabama, that competes in the USL Championship, the second division of...

own bill and King was running out of options. He looked to Birmingham, where African Americans lived segregated and in fear as second class citizens. In...

created World Football League. He signed a contract to play for the Birmingham Americans. "I'm as happy as can be. Getting with a super organization and the...

season culminated in World Bowl 1 on December 5, 1974, won by the Birmingham Americans. W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF = Points...

Birmingham Community Charter High School (formerly Birmingham High School) is a charter coeducational high school in the neighborhood/district of Lake...

World Bowl contested, the Birmingham Americans defeated the Florida Blazers 22–21 on December 5, 1974, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The game had...

the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League. He was named the starter at right cornerback and had 4 interceptions. In 1975, the Americans suffered...

champion WFL franchise, the Birmingham Americans/Birmingham Vulcans—before the league folded. A USFL franchise, the Birmingham Stallions–once again the league...

The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub...