Alabama Miners Rally then March on Federal Courthouse

摘要

On February 20,2019, UMWA Members from across Alabama began arriving at Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama. The Park was named for Osmond Kelly Ingram, a local firefighter, who was the first U.S. sailor to be killed in World War I. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor. Located just across the street from the historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four young African American girls were killed by a bomber. The Park later became a staging ground for large scale demonstrations, mostly by high school students and children, during the Civil Rights Marches of the 1960's. In May of 1963, Public Safety Commissioner, Eugene "Bull" Connor, an ardent racist, confronted the young demonstrators, threatening mass arrests, before ordering police officers and firefighters to attack the crowd with police dogs and firehoses. The demonstrations in Birmingham forced the city to end public segregation and helped to ensure the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.