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| Name | Street Address | City | State | Historical Notes | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Civil Rights Institute | 520 16th St. N. | Birmingham | AL | A civil rights movement gallery and museum across the street from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church which was bombed in 1963 killing four girls; this infamous event happened less than 3 weeks after the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs. | The facility houses exhibits of racial separation to racial progress and promotes on-going research. For more information, see Fourth Avenue Business District. |
| Fourth Avenue Business District | Fourth Avenue from 15th to 18th Streets | Birmingham | AL | Developed as the city's black business district in the early 1900's because black businesses were forced out of other places by Jim Crow segregation and white owned stores that didn't welcome black customers. | see: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute |
| Jones, Walter, Memorial | Birmingham | AL | Jones spent his life working in the coal mines and the union. He was an officer of the union until 1917, then was brought to the district office of the UMWA and later was an international organizer until 1922 when the UMWA was forced out of Alabama. | Jones continued his work with the union in Ohio and ended up back in Alabama until his death in 1937. | |
| Nixon, E.D., Home | 647 Clinton Avenue | Montgomery | AL | E.D. Nixon was a porter for the Pullman Company and served as president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' Union several times. As NAACP Montgomery Chapter president, Nixon recruited M.L. King Jr. to assist in the Bus Boycott of 1955-56.. | The Montgomery NAACP was on the forefront of changing Jim Crow bus lines. Nixon bailed out Rosa Parks and was instrumental in starting the bus boycott. Full name: Edgar Daniel Nixon. |
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