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The African slave trade was first brought to Alabama when the region was part of the French Louisiana Colony. [1] During the colonial era, Indian slavery in Alabama soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery in large part due to the rapid growth of the cotton industry. [2] [3]
Nevertheless, many African Americans served in its legislature and Mississippi was the only state that elected African American candidates to the U.S. Senate during the Reconstruction era; a total of 37 African Americans served in the Senate and 117 served in the House. [56] [57]
July 11 – San Diego Building and Loan Association founded, predecessor of Great American Bank. July 14 – Sarah E. Goode is the first female African-American to apply for and receive a patent, for the invention of the hideaway bed. July 23 – Former president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant dies in Mount McGregor, New York.
Robert Reed Church Sr. (June 18, 1839 – August 29, 1912) was an American entrepreneur, businessman and landowner in Memphis, Tennessee, who began his rise during the American Civil War. He was the first African-American "millionaire" in the South. [1] Church built a reputation for great wealth and influence in the business community.
February 27 – Hugo Black, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971 (died 1971) March 6 Jam Handy, swimmer and water polo player (d. 1983) Nella Walker, actress and vaudevillian (d. 1971) March 7 – Jessie Coles Grayson, African American contralto and film actress (died 1953)
The group founded Alabama Town about 2 miles (3 km) downstream from present-day downtown. In June 1818, county courts were moved from Fort Jackson to Alabama Town. Soon after, Andrew Dexter Jr. founded New Philadelphia, the present-day eastern part of downtown. Dexter envisioned his town would one day grow to prominence; he set aside a hilltop ...
The "Fourth Party System" is the term used in political science and history for the period in American political history from the mid-1890s to the early 1930s, It was dominated by the Republican Party, excepting when 1912 split in which Democrats (led by President Woodrow Wilson) held the White House for eight
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (3rd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 1994), 816pp; the standard scholarly history online older edition; online 2018 edition; Alabama State Department of Education. History of Education in Alabama (Bulletin 1975, No. 7.O) Online free; Bridges, Edwin C. Alabama: The Making of an American State (2016) 264pp excerpt