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Birmingham seeks to revive civil rights district

By David Pendered Dec. 9 – Birmingham is soon to start retooling 2.5 miles of roads and sidewalks in its Civil Rights District in hopes of sparking economic renewal. Plenty of redevelopment opportunities exist in the neighborhood surrounding the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls died in a terrorist bombing in 1963, and the […]