Birmingham civil rights movement

From Alabama rivers to Nerf guns, tomato sandwich season to skydiving dreams—Alabama Heritage director Rebecca Todd Minder shares what makes the Yellowhammer State shine! She debunks the “fake nice” Southern stereotype with Quick-Fire Quips host Baillee Majors while praising homegrown inventions. Plus, civil rights history and her thoughts for a better Alabama.

Ashley M. Jones is a Birmingham native and the current Poet Laureate for the State of Alabama. She talks with Quick-Fire Quips host Baillee Majors about how Alabama's revolutionary past shapes her experience as a resident of the Yellowhammer State. Plus, her takes on sweet vs salty grits, Alabama BBQ and how one of her childhood dreams may soon become reality!

The sole survivor of the attack on an Alabama church from the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the 60s, is set to come to Montgomery and discuss the current landscape of civil rights. Sarah Collins Rudolph was 12 years old when the explosion hit the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

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The city of Birmingham expects to spend about $100,000 on a monument honoring "foot soldiers" of the civil rights movement. The mayor's office says the…