Brighton is a city near Birmingham, Alabama, United States and located just east of Hueytown.

[3] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all land.

The town had a population of 1,502 by the 1910 census, with seventeen commercial establishments, including eight grocery stores.

Together with coal mining in this area, the iron company was integral to the industrial development in this part of Alabama, which is based on the much larger cities of Birmingham, Bessemer, and Gadsden.

After industrial restructuring in the late 1970s and when the iron company moved out, the town has declined in population since its peak in 1980.

Brighton Cemetery, which is still operating, contains the graves of persons of Scottish, English and German descent who came to work at Woodward.

[4] In August 1908, coal miner and union leader William Miller, who was black, was accused of blowing up the home of a white mine operator Finley Fuller.

Later, it was found that whites opposed to unionization had bombed Fuller's home; by linking the crime to a black man, they intended to increase general opposition to the union's drive for better wages.

[5] In 2015, after the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) published its study Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, the city of Brighton resolved to place a historical marker to commemorate Miller for his work with the union and as a victim of lynching.

They worked in cooperation with EJI and placed the marker in a ceremony near City Hall.

In a related effort, scholarships will be awarded to high school students for writing essays about Alabama's racial history.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,337 people, 1,180 households, and 519 families residing in the city.