(Birmingham, AL, Jan. 14, 2013) — Alabama Power is partnering with the Metro Birmingham Branch of the NAACP to present “When We Walk,” a calendar commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.
The unveiling will take place on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 5 p.m. in the Alabama Power Company Auditorium, located at 600 North 18th Street in downtown Birmingham. The evening program features Hezekiah Jackson, IV, NAACP Birmingham chapter president, and Birmingham Mayor William Bell.
The 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Movement sparked an unstoppable wave of change for people of color all over the world. As the city enters 2013, the Birmingham Metro NAACP is organizing a number of commemorations during the year to mark the 50th anniversary of pivotal historic events in Birmingham that forever changed America’s cultural landscape. Those who are honored in the calendar each played a role in shaping and advancing those events.
Calendar Honorees
January – Angela Y. Davis, Professor Carlton Reese, and Lucinda Brown Roby
February – Autherine Lucy Foster, Arthur George Gaston, and Yvonne W. Turner
March – James Armstrong, Colonel Stone Johnson, and Tommy Wrenn
April – Lillie Brown, Myrna Carter Jackson, and Gloria Washington Lewis-Randall
May – Oscar Williams Adams, Jr., and Ralph D. Cook, and Robert Smith Vance
June – Orzell Billingsley, Lucious H. Pitts, and W.L. Williams, Jr.
July – U.W. Clemon, Nina Miglionico, and Arthur Davis Shores
August – Frank Dukes, W.C. Patton, and Bishop Calvin Woods
September – Erskine R. Faush, Sr., Emory Overton Jackson, and Shelley Stewart
October – Nims “Bo” Gay, N.H. “Fireball” Smith, and Abraham L. Woods, Jr.
November – Albert Boutwell, Richard Arrington, Jr., and William A. Bell, Sr.
December – Terry Collins, Willie Thomas Etheridge, Sr., and Charles Gratton
Copies of the calendar are available free to the public from the Metro Birmingham NAACP office at 1520 4th Avenue North, from the Urban Impact office at 319 17th Street North and from any business in the Historic Fourth Avenue Business District in downtown Birmingham..
