The 1965 Selma to Montgomery March was the climactic event of the Selma voting rights movement. On February 18 Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by police during demonstrations [more]

The Treaty of Cusseta was an agreement between the U.S. government and the Creek Nation in which the Creeks were forced to exchange their remaining land in Alabama for new [more]

Between 1875 and 1928, the state of Alabama profited from a form of prison labor known as the convict-lease system perpetuating a form of slavery. Under this system, companies paid [more]

Founded in 1867, Alabama State University is a historically black university located in Montgomery. The school’s professors and students played a major role in the city’s famous bus boycott. In [more]

Joe Cain is regarded as the founder of Mobile’s modern-day Mardi Gras celebration. Before the Civil War, Mobile Mardi Gras was celebrated in conjunction with festivities to ring in the [more]

Like the more famous outlaw Jesse James, Lamar County native Reuben Houston Burrow, better known as Rube Burrow, headed a gang of train robbers that included his younger brother Jim [more]

Tuscaloosa native Julia Tutwiler was an educator, prison reformer, writer and outspoken proponent of education for women. She was closely involved with the founding of institutions that became the University [more]

Lowndes County native, E. D. Nixon was a long-time leader of the civil rights movement in Alabama. He worked tirelessly to increase the number of registered black voters in Montgomery [more]

Carl Elliott was an eight-term U.S. congressman from Walker County. Much of his work during the 1950s and 60s was in support of education and social programs for his district. [more]

Madame Octavia Walton Le Vert was a 19th century socialite and writer known as the “Pride of Mobile”. She hosted lavish parties at her home for Mobile society, political figures [more]