Alabama A-Z (Mobile, Huntsville, Elba: art, resident, county)

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McWane Center

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Singer Nat "King" Cole, born in Montgomery in 1917. His family move to Chicago when he was 4 years old.
In early 1956, Cole returned to Alabama, where his integrated group played to a segregated audience in the municipal auditorium in Birmingham. Four members of the White Citizens Council attacked him on the stage. Although hurt, Cole returned to the stage and completed his performance for the audience of 4,000. Cole, who had frequently visited in Montgomery, vowed never to return to the South, and he did not.

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[kevin_1975]

O - Opp Rattlesnake Rodeo, Opp, Alabama

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P - Pryor Field Regional Airport

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Q - Quillen, Chris; Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

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R - Repton, Conecuh County

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Space and Rocket Center - Huntsville


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[zenjenn]

Tate Farms in Meridianville - Agri-tourism at its finest.

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Oscar Wilder Underwood of Birmingham.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1897-1915 and Senate 1915-1927. Underwood was twice placed in nomination for the presidency of the United States, at the Democratic conventions of 1912 and 1924. He lost much support in the latter year with a bitter denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Van de Graaff, Robert J., born in 1901 in Tuscaloosa, AL. He was a physicist and instrument maker. He was the designer of the Van de Graaff generator which had an ability to produce very high voltages. (Seven million volts!)

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