Birmingham is the big city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County. Portions of the city come besides located in Shelby County. Though pronounced otherwise, these are known as fallowing Birmingham, England. Birmingham was at a center of the American Civil Rights Movement throughout the 1960s. Birmingham occurs as city that features a mixture of Old South meets Up to date South, however possibly while forgoing a progressive government that the label connotes in that recently southern culture. Inside recent years Birmingham hwhen been known as by various groups as one of a better U.S. cities where to survive.

Birmingham was founded as an industrial enterprise fallowing a close of the Civil War. Nonetheless, beginning within 1873, a city began to develop at an astonishing pace through a turn of the century, earning itself the nicknames of "The Magic City" & "The Pittsburgh of the South". On top a course of a 20th century, spell industry declined countrywide, the city's economy diversified. Though manufacturing is however the heavy sector, Birmingham as well occurs as major medical research facility & the regional banking & publication power.

A people of the city proper is exclusively 242,820 (2000 U.S. census), and declined to 236,620 according to the 2003 estimate. But, it serves when the primary nucleus for a straggly urbanization known as Greater Birmingham with 1,052,238 inhabitants.

Birmingham's region code is 205.

History

Birmingham was founded in June 1, 1871 by real estate promoters world health organization sold lots touching a aforethought crossing of the Alabama & Chattanooga and South & North railroads. A places of the railroad crossing was notable for the nearby deposits of iron ore, coal, and limestone - the leash primary raw materials utilized inside making steel. Birmingham is one of a super couple site worldwide inside which important numbers of tons trio minerals may be detected in close proximity. From either a begin a recently city was planned as a nifty center of industry. A founders borrowed a title of Birmingham, England's principal industrial city, to advertise that point. Birmingham had off to a slow run: the city was impeded by an eruption of cholera and a Wall Street crash in 1873. However before long afterwards a city began growing chop-chop.

In the 1950s and '60s Birmingham received national and international attention as a center of the civil rights struggle for African-Americans. The watershed within this movement occurred in 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr., imprisoned for having taken part in a nonviolent protest, wrote the now famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, a defining treatise in his cause against segregation. Birmingham is better known, notwithstanding, for the bombing which occurred late that month. 4 melanize girls were flushed by a bomb deep-seated at the 16th Street Baptist Church. Although Birmingham was never personal to big shell racial violence (Mass racial violence in the United States) such when hwhen occurred within more cities as recently as 1992, most common modern noesis of the city is dominated per 1963 bombing. Violent racial conflicts own lang syne abated & virtually all residents of Birmingham come avid to put such foul history behind the children.

Below a equivalent pattern when several more U.s. cities, a people in Birmingham's city limits has go over a retiring couple of decades. From either 340,887 around 1960, the people was down to 242,820 around 2000, a loss of just about 29 percent. Nonetheless, a incubation of suburbia south of Birmingham above that equivalent period has saved a metropolitan people growing.

Within 1971 Birmingham celebrated its centennial using a spherical of public works improvements, including the upgrading of Vulcan Park.

Within 1979 Birmingham elected Dr. Richard Arrington when its foremost African-American mayor.

Inside 1996 Birmingham's Legion Field hosted early rounds of Olympic soccer.

Above a course of the 20th century, while industry declined countrywide, a city's economy with success diversified. Though manufacturing is however the heavy sector, Birmingham as well occurs as major medical research facility & the regional banking & publication power.

Mayors
Robert Henley, (Mayor 1871-1873) J. R. Powell, (Mayor 1873-1875) W. H. Morris, (Mayor 1875-1878) H. M. Caldwell, (Mayor 1878) Thomas Jeffers, (Mayor 1878-1882) A. O. Lane, (Mayor 1882-1888, 1890-1892) B. A. Thompson, (Mayor 1888-1890) David J. Fox, (Mayor 1892-1894) J. A. Van Hoose, (Mayor 1894-1896) F. V. Evans, (Mayor 1896-1899) W. M. Brennan, (Mayor 1899-1905) George B. Ward, (Mayor 1905-1908, President of the Commission 1913-1917) Frank P. O'Brien, (Mayor 1908-1910) Culpepper Exum, (Mayor 1910-1913, President of the Commission 1913) D. H. A. Barrett, (President of the Commission 1917-1921) D. E. McClendon, (President of the Commission 1921-1925) J. M. Jones, Jr., (President of the Commission 1935-1940) Cooper Green, (President of the Commission 1940-1953) J. W. Morgan, (President of the Commission 1953-1961) Art Hanes, (President of the Commission 1961-1963) Albert Boutwell, (Mayor 1963-1967) George G. Siebels, Jr., (Mayor 1967-1975) David Vann, (Mayor 1975-1979) Richard Arrington, Jr., (Mayor 1979-1999) William A. Bell, (Interim Mayor 1999) Bernard Kincaid, (Mayor 1999-present)

Geography
Birmingham is placed at 33°31'Twenty-nine" North, 86°48'46" West (33.524755, -86.812740).

Birmingham occupies Jones Valley, flanked by hanker parallel mountain ridges (a shadowing ceases of the Appalachian foothills) running from either northerly-east to south-west. A vale is drained by microscopic lakes (Village Creek, Valley Creek) which flow into a Black Warrior River. Additional importantly, a vale was bisected per chief railroad corridor, along which virtually all of the early manufacturing operations began.

Red Mountain lies immediately south of business district. Birmingham's television & radio broadcast towers come lined higher along this large ridge. A region "Over the Mountain", including Shades Valley & Shades Mountain & beyond, was largely shielded from either a industrial smoke & rough in streets of the industrial city. This is the setting for Birmingham's extra flush suburban area of Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, and Hoover. South of Shades Valley is the Cahaba River basin.

S& Mountain, a little ridge, flanks the city north and divides Jones Valley from either great deal additional rugged land north. the Louisville & Nashville railroad enters a Vale across Boyles Gap, a large gap in the long moo ridge.

Ruffner Mountain, situated due east of a heart of the city, is front yard to Ruffner Mountain nature and severity and severity Center, one of the big urban nature reserves in the United States.

Based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 393.5 km² (151.9 mi²). 388.Deuce-ace kilometer² (149.Ix mi²) of these are l& and Cinque.Terzetto kilometre² (Deuce.Cipher mi²) of these are water system. A number region is I.34% h2o.

Climate
Birmingham has the moderate climate characterized by warmly summers, modest winters, & abundant rain. Birmingham has slightly less rain than a Gulf Coast & is slightly cooler. January understands typical day-to-day heat of 53.Cypher °F (Eleven.Vii °C) & lows of 31.Viii °F (−Cypher.One °C). Within July a norm day-to-day high is Xc.Half a dozen °F (32.Six °C) & a on line is 69.Deuce °F (Xx.Heptad °C). A typical annual temperature around Birmingham is 62 °F (Xvii °C). Snow is infrequent in the arethe, by owning a every year norm of single Cypher.Cinque inches (I cm). A typical annually raaround in Birmingham is astir 52 inches (1330 millimetre), by having March existence a wettest year & October a driest.

A spring & fall months come pleasant however variable, however polar front often bring heavy to severe electrical storm & occasional tornadoes to the South. the fall year features less rain & fewer storms, besides when moo humidness than a spring, however these are as well a secondary severe weather condition year. Birmingham is placed on the heart of the tornado alley known as the Dixie Alley due to the frequency of tornadoes in Central Alabama. Within late summertime & fall months, Birmingham lives occasional tropical storms and hurricanes due to its proximity to the Central Gulf Coast.

Communities

For purposes of community development & citizen participation, a City of Birmingham's nine Council territorial dominion come divided into the aggregate of Twenty-three communities, & once again into the amount of 99 single neighborhoods by owning their have front yard associations. Communities don't necessarily watch Council District boundaries. This structure was created inside 1974 as part of the formal "Citizen Participation Program" designed to improve communication between residents & city leaders. Front yard associations come habitually consulted in matters related to zoning changes, liquor licence, economic development, & city services. Neighborhoods come as well granted discretionary funds from either a city's budget to utilise for capital improvements & for non-capital projects & cases. For each one front yard's officers meet by having their peers to form Community Advisory Committees which are then granted wide powers on top city departments. A presidents one committees, successively, form a Citizen's Advisory Board, which meets regularly by owning a city manager, council, & department heads.

Communities and associated Neighborhoods
Aerodrome Hills (Airport Upland, Brownsville Heights, Brummitt Heights, Maple Grove, Penfield Park) Brownville (East Brownville, Roosevelt, West Brownville) Cahaba (Main road 280, Flow of any stream Purdy, Overton) Crestline (Crestline, Eastwood) Crestwood (Crestwood Northward, Crestwood South) East Birmingham (East Birmingham, Chimney corner, Kingston, Northerly Avondale) East Flow of any stream (Red Springs, East Flow of any stream, Gate City, Northerly East Flow of any stream, Wahouma, Zion City) East Pinson Vale (Apple Vale, Bridlewood, Echo Upland, Pine Hammock View, Sun Vale) Ensley (Dolomite, Ensley, Oak Ridge, Sherman Heights, Tuxedo, Wylam) Five Points West (Belview Heights, Bush Hills, Central Park, Ensley Upland, Fairview, Green Acres) Grasselli (Grasselli Heights, Hillman, Hillman Park, Industrial Center, Tarpley City, West Goldwire) Huffman (Huffman, Killough Springs, Liberty Upland, Spring Flow of any stream) Northward Birmingham (Acipco-Finley, Collegeville, Fairmont, Harriman Park, Hooper City, North Birmingham) Northside (City center, Druid Hills, Evergreen, Fountain Heights, Norwood) Pratt (Central Pratt, Northwards Pratt, Sandusky, Smithfield Estates, In the south Pratt, Thomas) Red Mountain (Forest Park-South Avondale, Highland Park, Redmont Park) Roebuck/To the south East Flow of any stream (Roebuck, Roebuck Springs-South Roebuck, South East Flow of any stream) Smithfield (College Hills, East Thomas, Enon Ridge, Graymont, Smithfield) Southside (Five Points South, Glen Iris, Southside) Southwest (Garden Upland, Jones Vale, Mason City, Powderly, Riley-Travellick, Sand Ridge) Titusville (Northerly Titusville, To the south Titusville, Woodland Park) West Prevent (Arlington-West Prevent, Germania Park, Oakwood Place, Rising-West Princeton, West Prevent Manor) Woodlawn (East Avondale, Oak Ridge Park, South Woodlawn, Woodlawn)

(Look at [http://www.informationbirmingham.com/community/CommunitySelectForm.jsp Community Development Department at the City of Birmingham] & [http://www.cpn.org/topics/community/birmingham.html Birmingham Participation at CPN.org])

Metropolitan Area
Birmingham & Hoover are the primary cities in the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Metropolitan Area, consisting of the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan statistical area and the Cullman micropolitan area that include 8 counties inside Central Alabama: Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Cullman, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, and Walker Counties.

Government
the City of Birmingham has the mayor/council form of government by using a nine-member city council. This replaced the City Commission within 1962, primarily as a way to remove Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor from power. By Alabamthe law, an issue prior to the city council must become approved by a both-thirds majority vote (Work There is no. 452, Ala. Acts 1955, every bit supplemented by Work There are no. 294, Ala. Acts 1965.). Executive powers come held completely per city manager's professional.

Todays Mayor Bernard Kincaid
Todays Council Council Dominion One (Joel Montgomery, Councilor) Council Dominion Ii (Carol Reynolds, Councilor) Council Dominion Trine (Valerie The. Abbott, Councilor) Council Territory Quartet (Gwen Pouncy Sykes, Councilor) Council Territorial dominion Fin (Elias Hendricks, Jr, Councilor) Council Territorial dominion Six (Carole Smitherman, Councilor & President Pro-Tem) Council Territorial dominion Heptad (Bertram D. Miller, Councilor) Council Dominion Octonary (Lee Wendell Loder, Councilor & President) Council Dominion Niner (Roderick Royal, Councilor)

Planning
Prior to the number one structure was built inside Birmingham, a project of the city was placed out on top a amount of 1,160 acres (4.Heptad klick²) per directors of the Elyton Land Co. Wall street were numbered from either west to east, allowing Twentieth Street to form a central spine of business district, anchored on a northward by Capital Park & stretching into the slopes of Red Mountain to the south. The "railroad reservation" was granted through the center of the city, going east to west & zoned exclusively for industrial utilizes. When the city grew, bridges & subway separated wall street from either a railroad bed, lending this central reservation a few of a impact of water (while forgoing the pleasant associations of a waterfront). From either a run, Birmingham's streets & avenues were unco wide at 80 to 100 feet (2 dozen to 30 m), supposedly to help evacuate unhealthy smoke.

In the early 20th century professional planners helped lay out many of the fresh industrial settlements & company towns in the Birmingham District, including Corey (currently Fairfield) which was developed for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (after purchased by U. S. Steel).

A Robert Jemison company developed numerous residential neighborhoods in the south & west of Birmingham which are then however noted for their pleasing quality.

Birmingham officials inside November 2004 were reviewing the City Center Master Project developed by Urban Project Associates of Pittsburgh, which advocates strongly for more residential development in the downtown vicinity & includes the major park all over many stops of the central railroad reservation.

Transportation
Birmingham is served by trinity Interstates, Interstate 20, Interstate 65, and Interstate 59, and the southern beltway Interstate 459 and the Elton B. Stephens (Red Mountain) Thruway (U.S. Highway 31 & U.S. Highway 280). There use been a bit of recent developments sustaining a regional interstate models, including a construction of Corridor Ten (New Interstate 22), and the plotted new construction of a Northern Beltline corresponding to the existent Interstate 459. Birmingham is served per [http://www.bjcta.org Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority] through the Metro Metropolitan area Express (MAX) bus technique.

Birmingham is served by Birmingham International Airport (there is another airport of the same name in Birmingham, England).

Amtrak's Crescent train connects Birmingham with a cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta and New Orleans. A Amtrak station is placed at 1819 Morris Avenue.

Economy

In the Seventies & Eighties, Birmingham's economy was transformed by owning investments around bio-technology & medical a food and drug administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). UAB is today a region's big employer & the largest around Alabama sustaining a work force of astir 20,000. Birmingham is too the leading banking center, serving when at home to trey major depository financial institution: AmSouth Bancorporation, Compass Bancshares and Regions Bank. SouthTrust, which also experienced been headquartered within Birmingham, was acquired by Wachovia in 2004. Telecommunications provider BellSouth has a major presence by owning many big agents in the area. the city is as well a powerhouse of construction & engineering corporations. It began using Rust Engineering International & has grown to numbers of more construction & engineering corporations like Become&K, Brasfield & Gorrie, BL Harbert International, and Dunn Construction, all of which are in the top 100 engineering and construction companies in the world.

Major Employers
Accenture Alabama Power Alagasco, an Energen Company AmSouth Bancorporation BE&K - international construction and engineering company BL Harbert International - international construction company that is too a section of Harbert Management Company, was one of a construction corporations contracted to build the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia BellSouth - once headquartered inside Birmingham, it however has its major operations & another headquarters in the area Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama Books-A-Million - third largest bookstall chain in the U.S. Bruno's Supermarkets Buffalo Rock Caremark Rx - formerly MedPartners Inc., which was a big medico practice management company by having its headquarteres around Birmingham Compass Bancshares Drummond Company, Inc. - one of a big coal producing corporations in a globe & besides the big merchandiser coke producer in the U.S. EBSCO Industries - the big personal company witharound Alabama using diverse operations in publication, manufacturing, & real-estate development Energen Harbert Management Company - billion dollar international company began by John M. Harbert HealthSouth - the united states's big outpatient clinic company Liberty National Life Insurance Co. (at present owned by Torchmark) McWane Corporation - manufacturer of fire hydrants, industrial valves, pipes & flanges O'Neal Steel Protective Life - insurance provider Regions Fiscal Corporation Royal Ventral suction cup Coffee, Inc. Saks Incorporated - department store operator SONAT - as well referred to as Southern Natural Barking spiders Company, at present the section of El Paso Energy Southern The food & drug administration Institute - pharmaceutical, self-propelled, and chemical defense locate firm Torchmark - insurance provider University of Alabama at Birmingham Vulcan Materials Company- largest producer of construction aggregates and industrial chemicals SouthTrust Bancorp - now section of Wachovia

Corporate Headquarters In Birmingham
Alabama Power, Altec Industries, AmSouth Bancorporation, BE&K, BL Harbert International, Books-A-Million, Brasfield & Gorrie, Bruno's, Buffalo Rock, Compass Bancshares, Drummond Company, EBSCO Industries, Energen, Harbert Management Company, HealthSouth, Liberty National Life, McWane Corporation, O'Neal Steel, Regions Financial Corporation, Saks Incorporated, SONAT, Southern Research Institute, SouthTrust, Torchmark, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Vulcan Materials Company all have their corporate headquarters located in Birmingham.

Fortune 500
Birmingham has eight Fortune 500 companies: AmSouth Bancorporation, Compass Bancshares, HealthSouth, Protective Life, Regions Finacial Corporation, Saks Incorporated, Torchmark and Vulcan Materials Company.

Note: Although HealthSouth is non presently on the names due to the fact it use at times not been suspire to post earnings because of an accounting scandal, although it is placed to post earnings around 2005 that might put the children back on the listing.

A bit of privately held compaines headquartered within Birmingham like - Exist as&K, Brasfield & Gorrie, Drummond Company, Inc., EBSCO, Harbert Management Company, McWane Corporation, and O'Neal Steel - have annual revenues exceeding one billion dollars.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 242,82Population, 98,782 menage, & 59,269 families living in the city. A population density is 625.4/km² (1,619.7/mi²). There are 111,927 housing units at an typical density of 288.3/km² (746.6/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is Two dozen.07% White, 73.46% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.80% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.62% from other races, and 0.83% from two or more races. Unity.55% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 98,782 menage away from which Twenty-seven.7% use babies under a age of Xviii swallow the two, 31.1% come married couples living together, 24.6% have a female homeowner by owning there are no hubby present, & Xl.0% come non-families. 34.4% of completely house come processed higher of souls & Ten.4% stand individual residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical menage size is Ii.37 & a typical personal size is Trine.09.

In a city, the people is spread retired, sustaining Xxv.0% under a age of Xviii, Eleven.1% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Thirty.0% from either 25 to 44, Xx.4% from either 45 to 64, & Thirteen.5% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 34 years. For each One c females there are 85.Seven males. For each Century females age Eighteen & assibilate, there are Fourscore.Iv males.

the median income for a personal in the city is $26,735, & the median income for a family is $31,851. Males have a median income of $28,184 versus $23,641 for females. A city's per capita income is $15,663. Xxiv.7% of the people & Twenty.9% of families come following a poverty line. Away from a sum people, 35.4% of victims under a age of 18 & 18.5% of victims 65 & older come residing following a poverty level.

Education
A Birmingham-Hoover area is page to many independent grammar school systems. A front yard's big come a Jefferson County, Birmingham City, and Shelby County school systems.

Institutions of Higher Education
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Samford University (includes the Cumberland School of Law) Birmingham-Southern College Birmingham School of Law Miles College Lawson State Community College Jefferson State Community College Bessemer State Technical indicator College Herzing College Faulkner University Southeastern Bible College ITT Technical Institute Virginia College of Birmingham (includes Culinard) Andrew Jackson University

Attractions
Landmarks
Alabama Theatre Arlington House Legion Field Rickwood Field, built in 1910, America's oldest standing baseball park. [http://www.rickwood.com Website] Kelly Ingram Park, site of notable civil rights protests and adjacent to historic 16th Street Baptist Church Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. [http://www.slossfurnaces.com Website] Vulcan, (featuring a god Vulcan at his forge) the big cast iron statue in the world which was foremost cast for the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and displayed on top of Red Mountain in 1938. WTTO Tower a 200Foot / 609.Half a dozen m tall guyed mast communication tower. (one of a tallest in the globe.) [http://www.oakmountainstatepark.org/ Oak Mountain State Park] is astir Tenner miles South of Birmingham. These are one of a southmost wrinkles in the Appalachian chain, and the scenic cause to the top will bring views evocative of the Great Smokey further north.

Major attractions
[http://www.barbermotorsports.com Barber Motorsports Park] occurs as $5Two million motorsports complex that includes the 2.Ternion mile (Trinity.64 kilometre) yearn track built to MotoGP specifications & the spacious museum housing George Barber's globe class collection of bike & race car. A park presently hosts Superbike & Sports Car Grand Am races. The Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a 67-acre (270,000 m²) park displaying the wide kind of plants inside interpretative gardens, including formal rose gardens, tropical glasshouse, & the big Japanese Garden. the facility too includes a white-tablecloth eating house, meeting rooms, & an extensive information library. The Birmingham Zoo is the large regional menagerie sustaining extra than 700 animate being & a recently-opened interactional babies's zoological garden. The Riverchase Galleria mall hosts more than 200 sales outlet, a 5-star hotel, & an professional tower under the big fanlight in the globe in the suburban area of Hoover. A anchors come JCPenney, Parisian, Proffitt's, Macy's, & Sears. The Talladega Superspeedway, located east of Birmingham, is front yard to deuce of NASCAR circuit's annual races within April & October. the speedway besides has a Motorsports Hall of Fame museum. Visionland is an amusement park with 2 independent sections: Splash Beach Waterpark & Magic Adventure Theme Park,. A theme park has Twenty-five different thrill rides including A Violent disorder wooden wild & Zoomerang, the steel wild purchased around 2004 from the Brisbane expo. The [http://www.rtigolf.com Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail], the globe-famous development of high-caliber public links course throughout Alabamthe, includes ii championship courses & a an 18-hole short course around Oxmoor Valley upright south of Birmingham. [http://www.mcwane.org McWane Center] occurs as science center & IMAX Dome Theater placed downtown using state-of-a-art lasting & road training exhibits.

Annual major events
CityStages is a world-an expert music festival that occurs about Birmingham's Linn Park in Father's Day weekend, that offers Threesome years of music from either a lot genres in Eleven stages. Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival is considered the third big film festival in the U.s.a. behind Sundance & Tribeca. It will bring filmmakers from either a lot on top the world to Birmingham to st& their films viewed and estimated. This festival commonly occurs on a endure weekend inside September at eight venues in the area of business district, however is supplementary concentrated around the Alabama Theatre. The Mercedes Marathon is a 10-k & Pentad-k itinerant race that will require place on the First or even 2d Sunday withwithin February that was began in 2002. The Southern Heritage Festival is an event with another risk at life. It began a Sixties as a music, arts, & amusement festival for the African-U.s. community around Birmingham, however ceased to survive per early Nineties. It was replaced per nowadays-defunct Birmingham Heritage Festival, which was au fond an 100%-music festival that targeted mostly immature demographics. However around July 2004, A Southern Heritage Festival was revived sustaining a newly title, The Original Southern Heritage Festival. This festival offers deuce-ace years of music, culture, & arts. A number one day of a festival is Hip Hop Nighttime, the 2nd day is Classic R&B and Old School night, and the third day is Gospel. This festival requires place on the Alabama State Fair Evidence at its Fair Park on the 1st weekend of September. "Aaron's 499 & EA Sports 500" are two NASCAR circuit races that occurs in April and October at the Talladega Superspeedway, and bring a major boost to the area's economy. Do Dah Day is an annual pet parade held around a prevent of April.

Culture
Birmingham is a cultural & amusement capital of Alabama using its many picture gallery in the area & front yard to Birmingham Museum of Art, the big art museum in the state. Birmingham is as well personal to the state's major ballet, opera, & Philharmonic corporations such a Alabama Ballet, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Ballet, & Opera Birmingham.

The historic Alabama Theatre hosts film screenings, concerts and performances. The Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts is page to Alabama Symphony Orchestra & Opera Birmingham likewise when many series of concerts & lectures. These are placed on the UAB campus in the Southside community. The Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC), houses the theater, concert hall, exhibition arethe, & a sports & concert arena. A BJCC is house to the Alabama Ballet & hosts major concert tours & sporting cases. Boutwell Auditorium (erstwhile Municipal Auditorium) is placed at Lynn Park. The Verizon Wireless Music Center, formerly Oak Mountain Amphitheater, occurs as big outdoor venue by having deuce stages.

More amusement venues in the area include:

Fair Park Arena, on the west side of town, hosts sporting cases, local concerts & community software download. WorkPlay, located in Southside, occurs as multi-purpose facility by having agents, audio & film production space, the lounge, & the theater & concert stage for camping creative person & film screenings. The Wright Center Concert Hall at Samford University is home to the Birmingham Ballet

Birmingham's nightlife is primarily clustered about 5 Points South & Lakeview.

Museums
The [http://www.artsbma.org Birmingham Museum of Art] is the South-east's big municipal art museum by using on top 20,000+ art. Significant collections include a big Wedgwood collection outside Engl&, a premier collection of German cosmetic cast iron, & significant collections of Asian and European cosmetic arts. European & Our contries painting & sculpture from either each time come easily-represented. This museum was renovated & expanded inside 1993. [http://www.mcwane.org McWane Center], placed business district, occurs as regional science museum using paws-in science exhibits, irregular exhibitions, & guided demonstrations. the building has a 42,000 square foot (3,900 one thousand²) IMAX dome theater with science-related programming. the center too houses a major collection of fossil specimens for apply by research worker. The [http://bcri.org Birmingham Civil Rights Institute] houses the elaborate & emotionally-charged narrative exhibit putting Birmingham's history into a context of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the contemporary Human rights struggle around the world. These are placed in Kelly Ingram Park adjacent to the 16th Street Baptist Church. a Institute besides houses archival & search materials for public apply & gallery space for irregular exhibitions. The [http://barbermotorsports.com Barber Museum of Motorsports], located in a big motorsports complex in the suburban area of Leeds, displays one of the first collections of motorcycles in the world. A museum includes an extensive information library & restoration workshop, also when views on top Barber's Deuce.Iii-mile race course. [http://www.slossfurnaces.com Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark] offers tours of one of Birmingham's signature blast furnaces. the places is besides utilized for ethnical software online & houses a nationally recognized metallic arts program. The [http://www.southernmuseumofflight.org Southern Museum of Flight], placed touching the Birmingham Airport, has a big collection of aircraft & aviation system & memorabilia. The [http://www.jazzhall.com Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame], inside the lobby of the Carver Theatre for the Performing Arts business district, exhibits poop on to the history of Jazz in Alabama & hosts frequent concerts. The [http://www.ashof.org Alabama Sports Hall of Fame], in a Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex downtown, showcases the disproportionate contribution of Alabamians to the globe of athletics. The [http://www.bhamrails.info/bess_hall_hist.htm Bessemer Hall of History], housed within the 1916 railroad depot in the nearby industrial city of Bessemer, has the diverse collection of artefact, including a modern mummy & Adolf Hitler's typewriter. The [http://www.uab.edu/historical/museum.htm Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences], placed on the UAB campus, houses a collection of medical instruments, artefact & specimens dating to the 16th century.

Sports
Though Birmingham has there is no major broker sport franchises, there is a super hard fan base for collegial sports - primarily a University of Alabama and Auburn University football teams. A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has a popular basketball program and is trying to broaden its base for football. Birmingham is personal to the Birmingham Barons, the AA minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. A city besides hosts a Birmingham Steeldogs of the Arena Football League 2. There exists too the amateur association football association, called La Liga.

Area Sport Venues
Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center Arena Arena Hoover Metropolitan Stadium home of the Birmingham Barons Legion Field Rickwood Field Fair Park Arena Pelham Civic Complex Arena

Media
Newspapers
Birmingham is served by of these day-to-day newspaper, The Birmingham News (circulation 150,346). A Birmingham News' Wednesday edition features sestet subregional sections known as East, Hoover, Northerly, Shelby, In the south, & West that handle news article from either victims areas.

[http://www.birminghamweekly.com/ Birmingham Weekly], [http://www.birminghamfreepress.com/ Birmingham Free Press] & [http://www.bwcitypaper.com/ Black & White] (promulgated biweekly) come Birmingham's loose guide publications. A Birmingham Days, an historic African-Western newspaper, besides is published each week.

Television
Birmingham is a portion of the Birmingham/Anniston/Tuscaloosa television market, which is the united states's Fortieth big.

WABM – UPN WBIQ – PBS WBMA – ABC WBRC – FOX WIAT – CBS WPXH – i WTTO – WB WVTM – NBC

Radio
View List of radio stations in Alabama

Other

Notable Natives
Look at List of Birmingham, Alabama people

Sister cities
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See Also
List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama