Titusville is a historic neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

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, United States

United States

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 southeast of Ensley

Ensley, Birmingham, Alabama

Ensley is a large city neighborhood in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It was once a separate and thriving industrial city. It is part of the Birmingham–Hoover Metropolitan Area.-History:...

 near UAB

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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's campus. It is centered on 6th Avenue South between downtown Birmingham and Elmwood Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)

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.

Titusville includes its neighborhood associations with North Titusville, South Titusville, and Woodland Park.

History

Since the early 20th century Titusville has been a neighborhood of middle-class African American

African American

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 families, including architect Wallace Rayfield

Wallace Rayfield

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, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice

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, the President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Mayor William Bell, former Mayor Larry Langford, councillor Carole Smitherman

Carole Smitherman

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, and Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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-winning journalist Harold Jackson.

In June 1993 Titusville residents took the Birmingham city government to court in an attempt to block completion by Browning-Ferris Industries

Browning-Ferris Industries

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 (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

Environmental racism

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. the city and county

Jefferson County, Alabama

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governments agreed to jointly purchase the former Trinity Steel Industries property in Titusville for redevelopment.