Events Index
Battle of Spanish Fort
Spanish Fort was part of the Confederate fortifications guarding the eastern approaches to Mobile during ...Battle of Sulphur Trestle
The September 1864 Civil War Battle of Sulphur Trestle, in Limestone County, cut a crucial Union supply...Battle of Talladega
Shortly after the commencement of the Creek War of 1813-14, Tennessee militia led by Gen. Andrew Jackson...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...
