In 2011, corruption in this city's 3.2 billion dollar sewer-construction project landed its county's commissioner, Chris McNair, in prison.
In 2011, corruption in this city's 3.2 billion dollar sewer-construction project landed its county's commissioner, Chris McNair, in prison. Frank Dukes recorded an oral history of this city's Selective Buying Campaign. Fred Shuttlesworth organized a campaign in this city as Mayor Albert Boutwell took office. That campaign, Project C, led to a document penned in this city in response to "A Call for Unity," which described the author's daughter crying over a televised ad for Funtown and was addressed to eight moderate religious leaders. In this city, four girls died as 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed, and Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor set fire hoses and dogs on children. For 10 points, name this city in whose jail Martin Luther King wrote a letter, the most populous city in Alabama.
In 2011, corruption in this city's 3.2 billion dollar sewer-construction project landed its county's commissioner, Chris McNair, in prison.
Birmingham, Alabama