founding_board

History Founding Board Founding Partners

Incorporating Board of Directors
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Appointed by Birmingham City Council, January 1990

Ms. Odessa Woolfolk (President)
Director, UAB Center for Urban Affairs

Dr. Edward LaMonte (First Vice President)
Professor of Political Science, Birmingham-Southern College

Rev. Abraham Woods (Second Vice President)
Pastor, St. Joseph Baptist Church and Chair, Birmingham
Chapter of Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Dr. Savannah Jones (Secretary)
Retired School Administrator and Director of Social Studies, Birmingham City Schools

Mr. Frank Young, III (Treasurer)
Attorney, Law firm of Steiner, Byars, Haskell, Slaughter,
Young & Johnston

Rev. William J. Battle
Chair, Birmingham Chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Dr. Robert Corley
Executive Director, National Conference of Christians & Jews

Ms. Bette Lee Hanson
Public Relations Consultant

Dr. Horace Huntley
Assistant Professor, UAB Department of History

Mr. James L. Lowe
Executive Director, Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

Rev. John Porter
Pastor, Sixth Avenue Baptist Church

Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Founding Chair, Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Ms. Peggy Sparks
Director, Birmingham Community Schools

Mr. David Vann
Former Mayor of Birmingham
Attorney, Law firm of Carlton, Vann & Stichweh

Dr. Marvin Whiting
Archivist, Birmingham Public library

Mayor Richard Arrington, Jr.
Ex Officio