Birmingham Public Library

Board Minutes, 1913-1989

(AR 511)

Size: 9 reels microfilm

Boutwell, Albert

Daily Appointment Books, 1965-1967

(AR 1750)

Daily appointment books kept by Boutwell during his term as Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. The books list meetings and events that Boutwell attended and occasionally include notes made by Boutwell to himself and notes to Boutwell from his staff. These books provide some indication of the Mayor's daily activities.

Size: 3 volumes

Boutwell, Albert Burton

Papers, 1963-1967

(AR 264)

Boutwell was elected to the Alabama State Senate in 1946 and after serving three terms was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1958. He defeated Eugene “Bull” Connor in a run for mayor of Birmingham in 1963, and served one term as head of the city’s new mayor/council form of municipal government. This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, and other material kept by Boutwell’s office during his term as mayor. The papers contain a significant amount of

material relating to urban and economic development and civil rights activities in Birmingham.

Size: 41 boxes

Boutwell, Albert

Scrapbooks, 1963-1967

(AR 575)

Newspaper clippings relating to city government and Boutwell’s activities as mayor.

Size: 5 reels microfilm

Breckenridge, John M.

Papers, 1967, 1969-1972

(AR 738)

John M. Breckenridge served as city attorney for Birmingham, Alabama. He joined the city’s law department as an assistant city attorney in 1948. In 1960, he was appointed city attorney by then-Mayor James W. (Jimmie) Morgan. Breckenridge served under five mayors and retired in 1974. This collection contains, letters, memoranda, invoices and correspondences from Breckenridge to Birmingham mayors, city council members, various city, state, and federal officials, attorneys, and private citizens. The material relates to ordinances, resolutions, court cases and other legal issues involving the City of Birmingham.

Size: 3 boxes containing 2,552 pages

Bryan, James Alexander, John E. Bryan and Family

Papers, 1918-1975

(AR 39)

Correspondence, office files, newspaper clippings, photographs and other material relating to the lives, careers and family of Rev. James Alexander Bryan (Brother Bryan), a popular Birmingham minister, and John E. Bryan, who served as Superintendent of Jefferson County Schools, Executive Secretary of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Birmingham City Council.

Size: 7 boxes

Connor, Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’

Papers, 1959-1963

(AR 268)

Theophilus Eugene Connor was born in Dallas County, Alabama in 1897. Trained as a telegraph operator, Connor eventually settled in Birmingham, Alabama where he worked as a radio sports announcer. Capitalizing on his popularity with radio listeners and on his well known nickname (“Bull”), Connor entered politics in 1934 and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives. Connor was elected Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham in 1937, a position that gave him administrative authority over the city’s police and fire departments. He remained Public Safety Commissioner until 1954, and held the position again from 1958 to 1963 when he was forced from office by a change in the form of the city government. During his long political career Connor ran two unsuccessful campaigns for governor of Alabama and was a leader of the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt. From 1964 to 1972 he served as a member of the Alabama Public Service Commission, the state body that regulates public utilities. Connor died in Birmingham in 1973. “Bull” Connor is most famous for ordering the use of police dogs and fire hoses to disperse civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham during the spring of 1963. This collection contains the office files from Connor’s last two terms as Public Safety Commissioner. The files from his earlier terms were destroyed in the 1950s.

Size: 22 reels microfilm

Connor, Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’ vs. the Birmingham Post Company

Trial Records, 1951-1956

(AR 114)

On the night of December 21, 1951, Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, was found alone in a hotel room with his stenographer Christina Brown. The resulting scandal temporarily drove Connor from office and nearly destroyed his political career. Brown left Birmingham and moved to Houston, Texas. Both Connor and Brown filed unsuccessful law suits against the Birmingham Post-Herald over it’s coverage of the incident. This collection contains correspondence, statements of witnesses, court documents relating to the case and photographs taken inside the hotel room on the night of the incident.

Size: 1 box

Connor, Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’ vs. New York Times et al

Trial Transcript, 1960

(AR 17)

On April 12, 1960 the New York Times published an article by correspondent Harrison Salisbury examining race relations in Birmingham, Alabama. Bull Connor and his fellow city commissioners filed suit against the Times. This collection contains a transcript of the trial.

Size: 1 box

East Lake, Ala. Board of mayor and Aldermen

Minutes, 1901-1911

(AR 1679)

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Ensley, Ala. Board of Mayor and Aldermen

Minutes, 1899-1909

(AR 1681)

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Graymont, Ala. City Council

Ordinances and Minutes, 1907-1909

(AR 1683)

Minutes of the Graymont, Alabama City Council and ordinances passed by the council for the period July 30, 1907 to October 5, 1908 and October 5, 1908 to December 31, 1909.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Green, W. Cooper

Papers, 1940-1953

(AR 368)

W. Cooper Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1900. He was a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and Columbia University. Green worked as a teacher and football coach, and as a real estate and insurance broker before being elected to the Alabama legislature in 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Birmingham’s postmaster, and elected president of the Birmingham City Commission, a position that also carried the title “Mayor,” in 1940. Green served as mayor until 1953 when he resigned to take a position with Alabama Power Company. He resigned from Alabama Power in 1959 to accept an appointment as president of the Jefferson County Commission, a position he held until 1975. Green served as president of the Alabama Chapter of the National Association of Postmasters, president of the Alabama League of Municipalities, president of the United States Conference of Mayors, and president of the Association of County Commissioners of Alabama. Cooper Green died in Birmingham in 1980. This collection contains the office files generated during Cooper Green’s terms as president of the Birmingham City Commission (Mayor). The files include correspondence, memoranda, publications, reports and other material relating to city government.

Size: 15 boxes

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