A celebration of this millennial year, the staff of the Alabama State Council on the Arts decided that a long look back over the past one thousand years, with the purpose of tracing our state’s artistic and cultural development, would prove...
The passages describe the lives and contributions of three freedmen of the Rapier family. John H. Rapier, Jr., was a physician at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. John H. Rapier, Sr., a barber in Florence, Alabama, served as a voter...