1957 Birmingham municipal election

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The 1957 Birmingham municipal election was held to fill three four-year terms on the Birmingham City Commission. As with most elections of the time, the only competitive campaigning was done for the Democratic Party primary. 45% of the city's 70,000 or so registered and poll-tax paying citizens voted.

Results

Commission President

Commissioner of Public Improvements

Commissioner of Public Safety

References

  • Nunnelly, William A. (1991) Bull Connor. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 0817304959
  • Harris, W. Edward (2004) Miracle in Birmingham: A Civil Rights Memoir, 1954-1965. New York, New York: Indianapolis, Indiana: Stonework Press. ISBN 9780963886477