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  1. Black Worker Finds Dignity at Sloss Furnaces
    date January, 1925 to 1940map Jefferson, Alabamatags Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama

               On a cold January evening in 1925, the Sloss Furnaces graveyard shift clocked in at seven. From ground level of the plant, one could see brilliant light almost as bright as the sun flowing from the ladles into the troughs as men worked frantically to obtain their quotas of pig iron. In an 1984 interview, Alonzo Gaines revealed life as a black worker at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham,...

  2. The Birmingham District Rises in the Late 19th Century
    date December, 1989 to 1989map Jefferson, Alabamatags Birmingham, Alabama, Steel and Iron Industry

        According to an 1889 article found in the Chautauquan, a popular weekly news magazine, Birmingham, Alabama was the future of the iron and steel industry in America. Seated in Jefferson County, which is located in central Alabama, Birmingham was named after the industrious steel city of Birmingham, England. Also known as the “Magic City” and “Pittsburgh of the South”, Birmingham had earned...

  3. Committing a Crime
    date March 16, 1977map Jefferson, Alabamatags Prostitution, Birmingham, Alabama, Seventies

    In 1977, a Jefferson county, Alabama man learned the price of being with a prostitute. According to police records, a man paid a prostitute twenty dollars and took the woman to a friend’s house. The next morning, the man woke up and discovered that the prostitute took all of his belongs, including his car, a suitcase full of clothes, his wallet, money, and the pants he was wearing. Learning that...

  4. Sexist Laws: Are Prostituion Laws Sexist?
    date August 30, 1974map Jefferson, Alabamatags Seventies, Birmingham, Alabama, Women, prostitution laws

    In 1974, the city of Birmingham, Alabama prostitution ordinance survived the first challenge in court. A federal judge denied a request from a Foxy Entertainment employee who called the ordinance unconstitutional. A woman, Lynn Floyd, is appealing her prostitution conviction. Floyd’s suit says that the ordinance is unconstitutional because it seems to only apply to women. Linda LeMoncheck found in...

  5. Making Money
    date June 24, 1975map Jefferson, Alabamatags Seventies, Birmingham, Alabama, Prostitution

    Prostitution in Birmingham, Alabama and the surrounding areas was bad in the seventies. It was so bad that in June of 1975 the city of Homewood passed a new ordinance that reduced the number of hours prostitutes were allowed to be on the street. The week before the ordinance was passed, three prostitutes were arrested for working out of a motel. Mayor Bob Waldrop said that Homewood was working to deal...