Roosevelt

Roosevelt
	Birmingham neighborhoods
District(s)	7
Community	Brownville community
Population	{{{population}}}
Area	N/A
President	Gwendolyn Swain
Meeting site	[[]],
Meeting day
Website
Neighborhood map	{{{nmap}}}

Roosevelt (formerly Roosevelt City) is a neighborhood on the southwestern corner of Birmingham in the Brownville community.

With help from attorney Orzell Billingsley, Roosevelt City was incorporated as a separate municipality in 1967 with Freddie Rogers as its first mayor. The community held a special election on July 12, 1988 and voted 718 to 404 to be annexed into Birmingham. The vote was contested, but it was upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court in August 1989.

The neighborhood adjoins West Brownville to the east and the cities of Midfield to the north, Brighton to the west, and Lipscomb to the south. It is divided by Valley Creek and includes the Hudson Grove and Broadmoor subdivisions.

Roosevelt Park and the Roosevelt Recreation Center are located at 5904 Higan Avenue. The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District's Benjamin Greene Village project and its Roosevelt City Community Center are also located in Roosevelt. School students in the neighborhood attend Oxmoor K-8 School and Wenonah High School. The former Roosevelt Elementary School on Sugar Way Drive is now a preschool operated by Gunn Academy. The A. G. Gaston Elementary School on Oakwood Street closed in 2011 and is also a preschool, operated by First Baptist Church of Roosevelt's Premiere Academy. Birmingham Fire Station No. 11 is also in the Roosevelt neighborhood, at 4601 Bessemer Super Highway.

Gwendolyn Swain is president of the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association. Rosie Turner is vice-president, and Mable Poindexter is secretary.

References

• Douglas, Carlyle C. (August 1970) "Incorporation: A New Tactic For Saving Black Areas." Ebony Vol. 25, No. 10, pp. 100-105