Sunday, September 27, 2020

Alabama History & Culture News: September 27 edition

 


Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Enjoy!


Bachelorette Hannah Brown Has Changed a Lot Through the Years — See Her Transformation!
The University of Alabama grad represented her home state as Miss ... There is so much more historical context that I didn't know that makes it so ...


Buffalo soldier history shared in Wellington
Pettigrew's great-grandfather, Isaac Johnson, a former slave from Alabama, joined the 38th Infantry K. J.R. Bruce, president of the Alexander/Madison ...

Alabama home of MLK's brother gets historic designation
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama home once occupied by the Rev. A.D. King, the brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is being added to ...


Don Noble discusses the legacy of Winston Groom
The history books are a part of the permanent record. And I think ... SI: How would you say Groom's writing impacted Alabama? DN: Well, I don't know ...

Mystery emerges from Alabama bayou after hurricane reveals boat long hidden in mud
The nearly 100-foot-long wooden hull appeared on private property in Saralandnear Mobile after Hurricane Sally brought historic rainfall and flooding to ...

Success of Ginsburg film inspires CNN look at John Lewis
The footage that made Lewis a part of history, from the 1965 march in Alabama, is of course a big part of the film. Knocked to the ground and beaten ...

99-year-old writer Aileen Henderson publishes early-life memoir
Henderson and her daughter will be online with a discussion her new University of Alabama Press book 5-6 p.m. Tuesday, hosted by Ernest and ...


Alabama Nurses Association elects 1st African American president
The Alabama Nurses Association elected its first African American president in its 107 year history. The organization named Dr. Lindsey Harris as its ...

Alabama Archives faces its legacy as Confederate 'attic'
Steve Murray, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, looks through boxes containing archival materials in Montgomery, Ala., ...

Historical society promotes online talk on suffrage centennial
And we hope to be able to see everyone again in early 2021.” “Shall Women Vote? Alabama's Suffrage Movement 1890-1920” is available ...

Winston Groom, Author of 'Forrest Gump,' Dies at 77
“Forrest Gump” tells the picaresque adventures of an Alabama man who stumbles through contemporary American history ... “It's the same damn book.


Made in Alabama 'The Devil All the Time' premieres on Netflix
The movie is based on a book written by Donald Ray Pollock and is described as a dark, gothic thriller. It is set in a rural Ohio town. It was filmed in ...

Winston Groom, author of 'Forrest Gump,' dies at 77
As a proud UA alumnus, Groom also compiled and wrote the massive 2002 University of Alabama Press book "The Crimson Tide: An Illustrated ...

Alabama opera 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' makes television premiere
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” an original opera by Alabama composer Joseph Landers based on the classic book of the same name by author ...

Winston Groom, Alabama grad and author of 'Forrest Gump,' dies at 77
As a proud Alabama alumnus, Groom also compiled and wrote the massive 2002 University of Alabama Press book "The Crimson Tide: An Illustrated ...

Louis died in Paradise, Nev, on April 12, 1981. Martha Jefferson, Louis' third wife, requested special permission for burial in Arlington National Cemetery ...


Winston Groom, Alabama grad and author of 'Forrest Gump,' dies at 77
... History of Football at the University of Alabama" and an updated 2010 second version, "The Crimson Tide: The Official Illustrated History of Alabama ...

'Fifth girl' injured in 1963 Klan church bombing asks Alabama governor for restitution
The explosion killed Rudolph's 14-year-old sister, Addie Mae Collins, and their friends, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, ...

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