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Montgomery city, Alabama – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [55] Pop 2010 [56] Pop 2020 [57] % 2000 % ...
Dees was born in 1936 in Shorter, Alabama, the son of Annie Ruth (Frazer) and Morris Seligman Dees Sr., tenant cotton farmers. [2] [9] His family was Baptist. [10]His grandfather named his son "Morris Seligman" after a Jewish friend. [11]
Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939–1946 (U of Alabama Press, 2000). Rogers, William Warren. Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War (University of Alabama Press, 2001). Williams, Clanton W. "Early Ante-Bellum Montgomery: A Black-Belt Constituency." Journal of Southern History 7.4 (1941): 495-525.
Dr. Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Beasley was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 5, 1950. [2] After graduating from Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, he attended Auburn University, where he played college football for the Auburn Tigers as a wide receiver. He lettered from 1969 to 1971.
Minister, founded the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while in Montgomery, led the Montgomery bus boycott and Selma to Montgomery march [35] Martin Luther King III: Advocate, SCLC president [36] Yolanda King: Advocate and actress [37] E. D. Nixon: Attorney (Browder v.
Bill Traylor was born in April 1853, in Benton, Alabama.His parents, Sally (1815–1880) and Bill Calloway (1805–1860+), were slaves on the plantation of George Hartwell Traylor (1801–1881), a white cotton grower.
Hank Williams's funeral, recorded as the largest funeral in Montgomery's history and one of the largest in the entire Southern United States, had a line two and a half city blocks long between the Montgomery City Auditorium and the Oakwood Cemetery Annex, with three trucks required to handle the wreaths that were placed at the Annex, and (according to R. L. Lampley and Marvin Stanley ...