Mrs. Gatlin tells about the many people that were sick in her community during the 1918 flu outbreak. Those that were infected were deathly sick and bed-ridden. Others were fearful that they too may become infected with the flu during this time....
"Booker T. Washington, Founder and first Principal of Tuskegee Institute was born a slave 1856 (?), graduated from Hampton Institute (Virginia) in 1878, called to Alabama in 1881 to found the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute, a school for...
"Loading Coal Barges in Tuscaloosa County for Export at Mobile and New Orleans." The foundry of the Central Iron and Coal Company in Holt, Alabama (later part of the Empire Coke Company), is in the background. From the rotogravure section of the...
Mistippee was the son of Yoholo Micco, a Creek Indian chief. From page 19 of HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA by Thomas McKenney and James Hall, 1838.
This article suggests that Boykin, the unsuccessful candidate in the recent statewide congressional election, would be a good lobbyist for Alabama in Washington, D.C. From the Wilcox Progressive Era.
Baggett served as Alabama's state auditor from 1955 to 1959; state treasurer from 1959 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1975; and secretary of state from 1951 to 1955, 1963 to 1967, and 1975 to 1979.