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The Moundville Archaeological Site is located on a bluff overlooking the Black Warrior River. The site and other affiliated settlements are located within a portion of the Black Warrior River Valley starting below the fall line, just south of present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and extending 25 miles (40 km) downriver. Below the fall line, the ...
The NHLs in Alabama comprise 3% of the approximately 1178 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama. Four historic sites in the state are managed by the National Park Service. One of these, the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, is also designated an NHL.
On July 25, 2019, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill announced that 94% of all eligible Alabamians and 96% all of eligible black people in Alabama were registered to vote. [28] However, according to the United States Census Bureau only 69% of all eligible Alabamians and 67.4% of all black people in Alabama were registered to vote. [26]
The preservation of African-American cemeteries is an integral part of documenting Black history and heritage. Many lands where enslaved or freed black individuals were buried are threatened by development and neglect though new efforts are underway to protect these historic places.
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama, that displays the history of slavery and racism in America. This includes the enslavement of African-Americans , racial lynchings , segregation , and racial bias .
An online, oral history presentation called "Voices of Alabama" features photos of historic sites and interviews with some of the people who worked with the civil rights movement in the 1950s and ...
Horton Mill Covered Bridge in Blount County Stewartfield in Mobile William J. Samford Hall in the Auburn University Historic District Winter Place in Montgomery Ashland Place Historic District in Mobile Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion in Tuscaloosa Temple B'nai Shalom in Huntsville's Old Town Historic District, in Huntsville "Forks of Cypress" ruins near Florence Fort Morgan, on shore of Mobile ...
The Historic Avenue Cultural Center's opening just months after the July 8, 2023 opening of Clotilda: The Exhibition at Africatown Heritage House helped Mobile, Alabama earn several travel accolades, such as being named by Conde Nast Traveler as one of the Top 24 Places To Go in North America and The Caribbean in 2024.