Recent Videos and Activities for 20th Century

Vulcan Statue and Park

The statue of Vulcan, Roman god of fire, looks down over the city of Birmingham from a height of almost 600 feet and watches over the city it was built [more]

December 13, 2019

George Washington Carver

As one of the most recognized names in agricultural research, George Washington Carver overcame numerous obstacles to achieve a graduate education and gain international fame as an educator, inventor, and [more]

December 13, 2019

Rosa Young

Known as the “mother of Black Lutheranism in central Alabama” and a strong advocate of education for rural children, Wilcox County native Rosa Young was instrumental in founding and promoting [more]

December 12, 2019

Pattie Ruffner Jacobs

Pattie Ruffner Jacobs was one of the foremost crusaders for women’s right to vote in Alabama. She was elected president of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association in 1912, the youngest [more]

December 12, 2019

Millard Fuller

Chambers County native Millard Fuller was the founder of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit organization recognized globally for building houses for people in need. Fuller was widely regarded as [more]

December 12, 2019

First Veterans Day Parade-Birmingham

In 1947, Birmingham resident and Navy veteran Raymond Weeks led a delegation to Washington, DC, to request General Eisenhower’s support for changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day to honor those [more]

December 12, 2019

Maud McClure Kelly

Calhoun County native Maud McLure Kelly was Alabama’s first woman lawyer and a pioneering political activist and archivist. She entered the University of Alabama in 1907 to study law as [more]

December 12, 2019

Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a first major crack in the dam of segregation in the South. Because of Jim Crow laws, black bus passengers routinely had relinquished their seats [more]

December 12, 2019

Eugene Sledge

Mobile native Eugene Sledge was a United States Marine, University of Montevallo professor and author. He is best known for his World War Two memoir, With the Old Breed: At [more]

October 22, 2019

Fort Morgan

Fort Morgan, named after Revolutionary War hero General Daniel Morgan, is located in Baldwin County at the mouth of the Mobile Bay. Fort Morgan—and its counterpart Fort Gaines, located on [more]

October 22, 2019