The memorial is within walking distance of other historic sites including the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, the Alabama State Capitol, the Alabama Department of Archives and History and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.

Category: History of Montgomery, Alabama

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The Hodges meteorite, or Sylacauga meteorite, is currently on exhibit at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

* Letters from Alabama, chiefly relating to Natural History ( 1859 ).

* Microscopy History links from the University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences

Category: History of Mobile, Alabama

* History of Baptists in Alabama

* Holley, Howard L. A History of Medicine in Alabama.

* Owen Thomas M. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography 4 vols.

* Jackson, Harvey H. Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State ( 2004 )

A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century 1979.

" The Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama ," Journal of Southern History Vol.

" Social and Economic Forces in Alabama Reconstruction ," Journal of Negro History 23 ( 1938 ): 290-348 in JSTOR

Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.

* ADAH, acronym for the Alabama Department of Archives and History

Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1984.

History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

* Davis, Robert S., “ The Old World in the New South: Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Agricultural History of Cullman County, Alabama ,” Agricultural History, 79 ( Fall 2005 ), 439 – 61.

* History of Henry County, Alabama, hosted at Rootsweb.

Despite the landslide victory, Johnson, who carried the South as a whole in the election, lost the Deep South states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, the first time a Democratic candidate had done so since Reconstruction.

Also, Lionel Richie's 1987 single, " Deep River Woman ", featured harmony vocals from Alabama.

* Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Kolomoki: Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A. D. 350 to 750 ( Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003 ).

The critical consensus was that this album represented nothing more than a consolidation of his previous work, though Richie's collaboration with the country group Alabama on " Deep River Woman " did break new ground.

His best known works include the lyrics to songs such as " Star Dust ", " Sweet Lorraine ", " Deep Purple ", " Stars Fell on Alabama ", " Sophisticated Lady ", " Volare " ( English lyrics ), " Moonlight Serenade ", " Mr. Ghost Goes to Town ", " Sleigh Ride ", " One Morning in May ", and " Louisiana Fairy Tale ", which was the first theme song used in the PBS Production of This Old House.

When " Deep South " first made its appearance in print " during the second third of the twentieth century " it originally applied to the states / areas of Mississippi, north Louisiana, southern parts of Alabama and Georgia, and northern Florida.

All this appealed to white Southern Democrats, and Goldwater was the first Republican to win the electoral votes of the Deep South states ( Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina ) since Reconstruction.

In the 1972 election, by contrast, Nixon won every state in the Union except Massachusetts, winning more than 70 percent of the popular vote in most of the Deep South ( Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina ) and 61 % of the national vote.

Once the restructuring had completed, Winn-Dixie was to operate in the Bahamas, and in five of the Deep South states, operating throughout Florida, the southeastern half of Louisiana, the southeast corner of Mississippi, most of Alabama, and the southwest and coastal corners of Georgia.

Boiled peanuts are widely consumed and commercially available in an area of the Southern United States from southern North Carolina south to central Florida, as far north as Ohio and west to Mississippi, ( i. e., much of the Deep South ). Boiled peanuts are mainly found in Alabama due to Dothan which is where the peanut is originally from.

He is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959.

Another business failure of his was the Deep Water Coal and Iron Company in Alabama.

The most concentrated numbers of longnose gars are found throughout the American Deep South, Texas, Alabama ( Cahaba River system ), and anywhere along the Mississippi River.

According to the WPA Federal Writers ' Project publication Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South, a popular witticism among Lewis's colleagues was the observation that Alabama had the largest representation of any state.

( 1941 ) Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South.

The " Old South " is usually defined in opposition to the Deep South including Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi, and it is also further differentiated from the inland border states such as Kentucky and West Virginia and the peripheral southern states of Florida and Texas.

The results of the state were similar to other states in the Deep south, such as Alabama and Louisiana.

He is part owner of Zeke's Deep Sea Fishing tours in Orange Beach, Alabama.

This convention convened on February 4, 1861, at the Willard Hotel at the same time that the seven Deep South states that had already passed ordinances of secession were preparing to form a new government in Montgomery, Alabama.

In 2002, Aron published Shalom Y ' All, focusing on Jews in the Deep South including, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina.

Hannah was born Lucy Terrell in Linden, Alabama and died in Detroit, where she had moved in the Great Migration to escape the racial tensions of the Deep South.