* November 28 – The new Constitution of Alabama requires voters in the state to have passed literacy tests.

The Alabama Council for Technology in Education ( ACTE ) was founded in the early 1980s, to promote general education and knowledge of technology for Alabama students in grades 3-12, in many areas ranging from computer literacy to video production.

Siegelman launched the " Alabama Reading Initiative ", an early education literacy program that was praised by both Democratic and Republican officials, and emulated by several other states.

Following the conclusion of the ALT test flight program, on March 13, 1978, Enterprise was flown once again, but this time half way across the country to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ) in Alabama for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing ( MGVT ).

The clear and present danger test was invoked by the majority in the 1940 Thornhill v. Alabama decision in which a state anti-picketing law was invalidated.

The key was taken from the name of the design and test base: Huntsville, Alabama, giving HUNTSVILE, with duplicated letters dropped: H was used for 1, U for 2, ..., E for 9 and X for 0.

In late 2006, the test scores at Jemison Elementary outperformed all but one school in Alabama.

At the war's end, he and his wife moved to Alabama, to test their freedom as full citizens.

Additionally, the Directorate also operates the National Synchrotron Light Source at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the test and training platform the ex-USS Shadwell in Alabama.

Shaw's next role was to lead the consolidated Boeing teams at Huntsville, Alabama, Canoga Park and Huntington Beach, California, in the design, development, test, evaluation, production and flight preparation of ISS hardware and software.

In 1992, he was assigned as an engineering test pilot at the U. S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama.

One Hound Dog missile crashed near the town of Samson, Alabama, when it failed to self-destruct after a test launch from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Rather, it ruled that Alabama lawmakers had passed the statute solely to advance religion, thereby violating the secular purpose test.

He was hired by NASA as an engineer, designing special test equipment at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

Air burst of a white phosphorus bomb over the USS Alabama ( BB-8 ) | USS Alabama during a test exercise conducted by General Billy Mitchell, September 1921.

* NAACP Banned in Alabama ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans

John A. Thornton ~ Brewton, Alabama writes:

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

The Civil Rights Memorial is a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama to 40 people who died in the struggle for the equal and integrated treatment of all people, regardless of race, during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

* 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

* 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U. S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

* 1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.

Lin, who now owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City, went on to design other structures, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama ( 1989 ) and the Wave Field at the University of Michigan ( 1995 ).

* 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

* January 11 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the Union.

* February 4 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, the Provisional Confederate Congress is formed by representatives from the first six break-away states.

* February 9 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Weed Convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

* February 18 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America.

* August 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Mobile Bay: At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

Category: Alabama in the American Civil War

The ensuing American Civil War saw moderate levels of action in Alabama, and the population suffered economic losses and hardships as a result of the war.

* Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama 1905. the most detailed study ; Dunning School full text online

Partners in Rebellion: Alabama Women in the Civil War ( 1970 ).

During the American Civil War, Confederate States of America raider CSS Alabama built in Great Britain, America claimed direct and collateral damage against Great Britain, awarded $ 15, 500, 000 by international tribunal.

* " Report on Civil Works Administration of Alabama, Jefferson County Division, Nov. 19, 1933-Mar.

Portions of the 15th Regiment of Alabama Infantry, which served with great distinction throughout the U. S. Civil War, were recruited in Dale County, with all of Co. " E " and part of Co. " H " being composed of Dale County residents.

** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* Robert Graetz: Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights Activist

* Alabama Civil Rights Collection-Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, at Penn State University, includes oral history interviews and materials concerning Montgomery Bus Boycott

* Civil Rights Era Mug Shots, Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Alabama Department of Archives & History

By the Spring of 1963, Baldwin had become so much a spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement that for its May 17 issue on the turmoil in Birmingham, Alabama, Time magazine put James Baldwin on the cover.

* The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists includes video, pictures and materials of Dr. Abernathy during Selma to Montgomery March

* 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter

* Warren, Dan R. ( 2008 ), If It Takes All Summer: Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States ' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his " I Have a Dream " speech, and also in the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march, which contributed to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and federal enforcement of voting rights.

In 1965 he traveled from Brooklyn, New York to participate in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama.

After graduating with a degree in business administration from Caldwell College for Women in 1962, Kopechne moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to teach for a year at the Mission of St. Jude, an activity that was part of the Civil Rights Movement.

King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign, a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown retailers.

SCLC was governed by an elected Board, and established as an organization of affiliates, most of which were either individual churches or community organizations such as the Montgomery Improvement Association ( MIA ) and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights ( ACMHR ).

We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.