Events Index - B

B : 18 Articles Found

• Battle of Tallushatchee
  The Battle of Tallushatchee, which took place on November 3, 1813, in present-day Calhoun County, was...
• Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Alabama Air National Guard
  In 1961, members of the Alabama Air National Guard (ANG) secretly took part in the failed invasion of...
• Birmingham Campaign of 1963
  The climax of the modern civil rights movement occurred in Birmingham. The city's violent response...
• Birmingham Cholera Outbreak of 1873
  Just two years after its founding, Birmingham, Jefferson County, was beset by a deadly cholera epidemic...
• Birmingham District Coal Strike of 1908
  In 1908, Birmingham witnessed one of the most remarkable labor disputes in American history. A bitter...
• Black Hospital Movement in Alabama
  In Alabama, as in the rest of the segregated Jim Crow South, African Americans were barred from working...
• Bloody Sunday
  "Bloody Sunday" refers to the March 7, 1965, civil rights march that was supposed to go from Selma to...
• Boswell Amendment
  The Boswell Amendment was a short-lived amendment to the Alabama Constitution, enacted in 1946, that...