Titusville, Birmingham, Alabama
- Titusville, Birmingham, Alabama
Titusville (pronounced IPA|ˈtɪdəsvl or IPA|ˈtɪdəsˌviʊl ) is a historic neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. It is centered on 6th Avenue South between downtown and Elmwood Cemetery.
Titusville includes the Birmingham neighborhood associations of North Titusville, South Titusville, and Woodland Park.
History
Since the early 20th century Titusville has been a community of middle-class African American families, including architect Wallace Rayfield and minister John Wesley Rice, Jr, the father of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
In June 1993 Titusville residents took the Birmingham city government to court in an attempt to block completion by Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) of a garbage transfer station in their community. This action succeeded in halting the project and was widely celebrated as a grass-roots victory over environmental racism. In 2005 the city and county governments agreed to jointly purchase the former Trinity Steel Industries property in Titusville for redevelopment.
References
*"Not in Anyone's Backyard! The Grassroots Victory over Browning-Ferris Industries", video, 26 min. (Greenpeace, 1994).
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=al&vol=1991455&invol=2 Rel: City of Birmingham v. Horn] , Supreme Court of Alabama, Special Term, 2001
*Laura Westra, "The Faces of Environmental Racism: Titusville, Alabama, and BFI," in "Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice," 2d ed., ed. Laura Westra and Bill E. Lawson (Lanham, Md., 2001) ISBN 0-7425-1248-7.
*"Birmingham, Jeffco to buy Trinity plant property," "Birmingham News", September 27, 2005.
ee also
List of Birmingham neighborhoods
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