Birmingham in the Space Age

The atlas holds 3 people and 5 moments here, from 1962 to 1988. The most recorded lives are Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Notable people

1. Dorothy Hodgkin

   in 1988

   1 moment here

   English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…

2. Martin Luther King Jr.

   from 1962 to 1963

   3 moments here

   American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…

3. Rosa Parks

   in 1962

   1 moment here

   American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…

Moments

1. 1962 SCLC convention attendance Rosa Parks
2. 1962 Assaulted at SCLC conference Martin Luther King Jr.
3. 1963 Imprisoned during Birmingham campaign Martin Luther King Jr.
4. 1963 Eulogizes Birmingham bombing victims Martin Luther King Jr.
5. 1988 Reddy Memorial Lecture in Birmingham Dorothy Hodgkin

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