Charles Cecil Guyton

Charles Cecil Guyton

Charles Cecil Guyton Charles Cecil Guyton grew up in Birmingham’s Titusville community, where his family was active in the Civil Rights Movement. He was close friends with two of the girls who were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church: Denise...
Mike Diccicco

Mike Diccicco

Mike Diccicco Mike Diccicco attended Catholic elementary and high school in Birmingham in the 1960s. Shortly after the Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964 and the “colored to the rear” signs came down, he remembers boarding a bus and seeing a group of whites standing...
Jacquelin Clarke Bell

Jacquelin Clarke Bell

Jacquelin Clarke Bell Jacquelin Clarke Bell (sister of Charlotte Clarke Houston) grew up in Birmingham in the 1960s; her father was Chuck Clarke, a popular jazz musician who is in the Birmingham Jazz Hall of Fame. She has vivid memories of two bombings in Birmingham:...
1865-1945 – Convict Leasing

1865-1945 – Convict Leasing

Convict Leasing: De Facto Slavery 1865-1945 According to the first section of the Thirteenth Amendment, passed on 31 January 1865, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude” should exist within the United States, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party...
Patricia Bowman Billups

Patricia Bowman Billups

Patricia Bowman Billups Patricia Bowman Billups is an entrepreneur and proprietor of a family-owned business enterprise located on the same block of Birmingham’s Titusville community for 100 years. She grew up working in the family store, Bowman’s Groceteria, where...