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When it Raines, it pours: Civil War scholarship and Alabama Unionists
university president and professor emeritus of Troy University, who spent most of his career in higher education. This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: When it Raines, it pours: ...
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33 Interesting and Fun Facts about Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama, played a significant role in the Civil Rights ... Alabama played a significant role in the American Civil War and was part of the Confederate States of America. 9. Alabama was ...
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Southern secession and the outbreak of the Civil War
The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.
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Alabama voters stay true to Republican Party | INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE
Once upon a time in Alabama, the Republican Party was reviled. Today, it dominates the state's political landscape.
Column: An exhibition and a book revisit the life and death of Emmett Till
On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.” ...
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Trump Isn’t Hiding Plan to Use Military to Quash Protests and Deport Immigrants
Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but ...
Famed ocean liner’s journey to Alabama to become world’s largest artificial reef delayed by weather
The S.S. United States’ journey down to Mobile was delayed this week due to concerns over a tropical disturbance forming in ...
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Trump isn’t the first president menaced by Derangement Syndrome
A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could foment a civil war? Yes, this is what Fire-Eater Southern Democrats ...
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Meet the Players: Movement Leaders
Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were ...
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Col. Montgomery Gilbreath House
Box 236, Guntersville, AL 35976 - United States 256-558-9175 Website ... the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War. Tours offered by docents regarding Andrew Jackson's Ft. Deposit near Guntersville ...
A person is dead and 16 are hurt after a shooting at Tuskegee University; 1 arrest made
A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced ...
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Meet the Players: Movement Leaders
Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were ...