Looking back at Birminghams history, Civil Rights Movement as WBRC celebrates 75th anniversary [Video]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – Through the Civil Rights Movement, people in Alabama and especially Birmingham, changed the nation and the world.

As WBRC celebrates 75 years, we are looking back at its coverage of the movement through documentaries that focused on three people connected to it.

Those people include Birmingham movement’s unquestioned and underappreciated leader the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth; A.G. Gaston, Alabama’s first black millionaire, who built a business empire and used some of his wealth to help fund the movement; and Richard Arrington, Jr., the man who, as Birmingham’s first Black mayor, was the realization of Black Birmingham’s political strength, and whose 20 consequential years in office created much of the city we see today.

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