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. Some articles may be behind a paywall. Enjoy!
| Dr. Wayne Flynt talks Harper Lee during library speaker's series - Valley Times-News Valley Times-News Monroeville, Alabama was the place she was born, grew up and died. ... the place where she became famous for her bestselling book and where she ... |
| Central Baptist in Phenix City celebrates 100th anniversary - The Alabama Baptist The Alabama Baptist Calvin Milford of the Alabama Baptist Historical Commission presented a certificate, and Mayor Eddie Lowe presented a proclamation. “We're excited to ... |
| Sequoyah's words, and a very rare snail, live harmoniously in an Alabama cave | Culture Cherokee Phoenix Caves are, by nature, mysterious subterranean portals to another world. Manitou Cave – a historical gem, a cultural phenom, a conservational ... |
| Alabama officials: New I-10 project means less toll avoidance through historic Africatown AL.com A Welcome Center, across from the Old Plateau Cemetery – where many of the survivors of the Clotilda, and their descendants are buried – is also ... |
| NewSouth Books: Prattville to Honor Randall Williams and Suzanne La Rosa at Dinner March 4 Elmore-Autauga News Suzanne, NewSouth's publisher, relocated to Alabama in 1997 from New York. Suzanne's early career included editorial positions at Good ... |
| Alabama State comic book artist doing “super” things - WSFA WSFA Alabama State comic book artist doing “super” things. Alabama State University sophomore Ronald Martin taking his passion for art to a superhero. |
| 12 Quirky Facts About Alabama That Sound Made Up, But Are 100% Accurate Only In Your State 6. Cherokee, Alabama is home to the Coon Dog Cemetery, which was established in 1937. There's no other cemetery in the world like it. |
| Selma Cemetery Department gives update on repairing tornado-damaged cemeteries Selma Sun Cemetery Director Reginald Wells has released an update on the Old and New Live Oak cemeteries after they were damaged in the Jan. 12 tornado. |
| 'Huey' helicopter to soar above Alabama veterans park as permanent display Stars and Stripes Cullman's Veterans Memorial Park will soon be home to the first new piece of full-scale military memorabilia it has added in nearly a decade: A ... |
| 'My Selma' tells kids what it was like to grow up Black in 1960's South | Here & Now - WBUR WBUR Willie Mae Brown at a book launch event for "My Selma." (Luana Maria Şeu). When Selma, Alabama, was recently torn apart by that tornado, it was ... |
| Hazel Green girls on brink of AHSAA history after 85th straight victory - AL.com AL.com The Hazel Green girls' basketball team is one victory away from Alabama High School Athletic Association history after beating Bob Jones 48-36 at ... |
| The Way It Was: Skipper's New Book Tells Story of Integration of Alabama's Football Team Over the Mountain Journal The next season, Jackson and Mitchell, a defensive end and junior college transfer, became the first black players in Alabama football history and ... |
| 13 artists who came to Alabama to record at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio - CBS 42 CBS 42 News 19 has compiled a list of several artists who spent time spinning some tracks and making history in Sheffield. R.B. Greaves, “Take a Letter Maria ... |
How a group of Cuban immigrants took over a prison in Alabama : White Lies - NPR
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A photograph from 1991 of a prison takeover in rural Alabama. ... News/Donated by Alabama Media Group /Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Damage assessments ongoing in Selma's historic district - WSFA WSFA Selma has the largest contiguous historic district on the national register in the state of Alabama. You can visit historicselma.org to donate. |
Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat on a segregated bus
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... before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, ... https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/claudette-colvin-refuses-to ...
| Living history crew drill at Battleship Memorial Park brings history to life - WPMI WPMI Interact with historical WWII re-enactors aboard the USS ALABAMA and the USS DRUM. These historical re-enactors, dressed in WWII period Navy ... |
| Black History Month: The History Lowry House | | waaytv.com WAAY-TV Huntsville Historian and Storyteller, Bobby Hayden and Jane Tippett sat down with Anchor Nakell Williams to tell the story of the Historic Lowry House ... |
| Report: 11 Alabama institutions hold Native American remains - Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery Advertiser The Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday July. "Repatriation of Native American Ancestors, their burial ... |
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