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Welsh craftsman and artist John Petts was inspired to construct and deliver the iconic stained-glass Wales Window of Alabama to the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1965. The Wales Window of Alabama is a large stained-glass edifice depicting a black Jesus, with arms outstretched, reminiscent of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
George Cheek Dayton (October 30, 1911 – December 26, 1993) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He also served as a member for the 38th district of the Florida Senate .
Chris McNair, Alabama state legislator and businessman; Bert Nettles, lawyer in Birmingham; Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Mobile (1969-1974) Charles Redding Pitt, chairman of Alabama Democratic Party; Cecil F. Poole, federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit; Condoleezza Rice, United States ...
Just days after Bob Bakish left Paramount Global as CEO, CBS president/CEO George Cheeks — one-third of the newly formed “Office of the CEO” that will now jointly run the company — spoke ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Cheeks also knows those challenges first-hand. “As a biracial man, I always felt an extra layer of vulnerability. Early in my career, when I was trying to find a way to come out, I kept a James ...
George G. Seibels Jr. (July 16, 1913 – March 28, 2000), was the first Republican to serve as the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. [1] Seibels was born in 1913 in Coronado, California . He was the son of Rear Admiral George Seibels, Sr., of Montgomery , Alabama, and a great-grandson of George Goldthwaite , former chief justice of the Alabama ...
Rufus N. Rhodes (1856–1910) – founder of the Birmingham News; Bo Russell (1916–1997) – professional football player; Ed Salem (1928–2001) – professional football player and restaurateur; Albert Lee Smith, Jr. (1931–1997) – U.S. representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district from 1981 to 1983