BIRMINGHAM BOWLING CENTERS The first bowling house in Birmingham is somewhat of a mystery. As happens so many times, it depends on whom you ask. Some say there was a bowling house on 1st Avenue North near the Old Terminal Station; while others say the YMCA had the first, with either two or four bowling lanes located in the YMCA building. It is agreed, however, that the first regularly used bowling center was opened in 1933 and known as The Phoenix Bowling Alley, located in the basement of the Phoenix
The Face in the Courthouse Window On a stormy night in January 1878, an angry mob of citizens gathered in Carrollton, Alabama with one purpose in mind. Even though the wind blew hard and thunder roared, their eyes were locked on a single window in the courthouse and their cries for justice kept them from hearing the coming storm. They were there to get revenge from the man who had burned the symbol of their recovery from Yankee defeat (Windham and Fish 64). A suspect had been arrested on circumstantial
For many, the quaint town of Point Clear, Alabama represents the Old South rooted in tradition, charm, and grace. Halfway down the bay and nearly hidden among oaks adorned with Spanish moss, Point Clear was founded in the early 1800s. Today, the city continues to honor its role in the Civil War, perpetuates the memories of its residents, and evolves as a greater and better place. Following the coast line, early Spanish explores first discovered Point Clear situated on the Bay of the Holy Spirit
All throughout Colorado there has been many developments and expansions. One of these developments is the railroad system. Railroads were and still are such an essential means of transportation for people as well for industries involving coal and fuel, and many other things. There are many key players and developers that took part in revitalizing Colorado in the 1870s. Some of these key players that contributed to the territory’s growth were William A.H. Loveland, Edward L. Berthoud, Henry M. Teller
Law Clerk, Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office; Birmingham, Alabama. Legal Intern, Federal Defender for the Northern District of Alabama; Birmingham, Alabama. Legal Intern, Federal Defender for the Middle District of Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama. Judicial Intern, United States Chief Magistrate Judge Paul Greene (Retired), United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama; Birmingham, Alabama. Judicial Intern, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Alfred Bahakel
New York city has 32 school districts, district 10 is broken into smaller districts: Riverdale Northwest Bronx and PS South Bronx. The Bronx's is socially segregated with the upper middle population to the north and the poor minority groups in the south. School district 10 is 90% african american and hispanic 10% asian, white, and middle-eastern combined. In Savage Inequalities the author says “ A landscape of hopelessness...the poorest congressional district in the united states”(121). More than
that nursing home policies and/or practices assure protection to their residents (Payne & Flecther, 2005). Therefore, the use of the survey research design may not have responses by every administrator or law enforcement within the selected nine counties in Ohio, however, the administrators and/or law enforcement that wish to see changes or provide safe
The city of Jefferson is indebted to her father, so Emily's taxes are waived forever. However, a younger generation of aldermen later confronts Miss Emily about her taxes, and she tells them to see Colonel Sartoris (now long dead, though she refuses to acknowledge his death). Intimidated by Emily and her ticking watch, the aldermen leave, but they continue to send tax notices every year, all of which are returned without
kept as a slave and treated like a slave when he lived in slave free territory. Just his little bit of questioning added up to the big amount of things that helped to abolish slavery. Dred Scott was born into slavery sometime in 1803 in South Hampton County, Virginia, but his hometown was St. Louis, Missouri. His birth name was Sam Scott, but he adopted his older brother’s name, Dred, when he died at a very young age. Dred’s parents were slaves. He and his family belonged to Peter Blow and his family
of 1970’s there were women, african americans, native americans, gays and lesbians and other people were fighting for equality. Among this time a great icon was borned and her name was Angela Davis. She was born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. During this time the blood of her people flowed through the streets because of political powers that favored racism and terror. She lived in a black community namd Dynamite Hill, as she grew up she learned of fifty bombings against Black people in
them, but yet they still felt bad for people being unjustly treated in other parts of the world, when they could not even see that they were being awful to the people in their own community. Although there were many hypocritical people in Maycomb county, there were some people who saw what was truly right, and one of those people was Dolphus Raymond, a white man who had children with an African American woman. Dolphus Raymond loved to live with African American people, and several people could not
On December 24, 1946 Jeff Sessions was born in Selma, Alabama. Throughout Sessions life he was an attorney for Alabama for 20 years. Sessions first big break outside of Alabama is the nomination for district court from President Ronald Reagan.This nomination was rejected because of allegations that Sessions had praised the KKK and he said criticized the ACLU and the NAACP. Eventually Sessions got his seat in the Senate in 1996, he then went on to win three more terms. Sessions was also the first
This text is adapted from How to kill a mockingbird situated in the 1930s in Maycomb County, rural Alabama, United States. A black man is being charged of raping and beating up a young girl, and the father of the protagonist, Atticus Finch, is in charge of defending him. I will be introducing a new character, the son of one of the farmers who is asked to join the jury. He is from town and so is much more educated and open minded than the rest of the jury. The end of the court is recounted from his
his mother from the police. Civil rights leaders planned a fifty-four mile march from Selma to the capital of Montgomery. They started to march across the steel bridge that was constructed over the Alabama River, but a wall of state troopers stood on the other side. Behind the troopers was the county sheriff and a crowd of white spectators waving Confederate flags. The troopers advanced towards the marchers, and they knocked them to the ground, hit them with sticks, and threw tear gas at them. Police
American section? Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist that worked with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to change African American rights. She was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She went to college at the Alabama State Teachers College. After her college education, she became the secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. “She trained in nonviolent methods of social activism and was therefore well prepared for her historic role” (Matthews)
In 1971 in Mobile County Alabama the School Board created a state statute that set aside time at the beginning of each day for silent ’meditation’ (statute 6-1-20), and in 1981 they added another statute 16-1-20.1 which set aside a minute for ‘silent prayer’ as well. In addition to these, in 1982 the Mobile County School Board enacted statute 16-1-20.2, which specified a prayer that teachers could lead ‘willing’ students in “From henceforth, any teacher or professor in any public educational institution
system. An important part of the book is the story of Atticus Finch, a lawyer and resident of a fictional county in Alabama called Maycomb, told from the perspective of his daughter, Scout, who is recalling her childhood. Atticus represents Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping
were adopted by the states of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. President James Buchanan, in the last days of his administration, declared that the federal government would not forcibly prevent the secessions. In February 1861, the seceding states sent representatives to a convention in Montgomery, Alabama. The convention, presided over by Howell Cobb of Georgia, adopted a provisional constitution and chose Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as provisional president and Alexander
George Wallace Former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, who built his political career on segregation and spent a tormented retirement arguing that he was not a racist in his heart, died Sunday night at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. He was 79 and lived in Montgomery, Ala. Wallace died of respiratory and cardiac arrest at 9:49 p.m., said Dana Beyerly, a spokeswoman for Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. Wallace had been in declining health since being shot in his 1972 presidential campaign
of disrespect, the fact that each of these individuals survived is an example of the human spirits desire to survive in the direst of situations and the ability to overcome insurmountable odds. Charity Anderson was born into slavery in Monroe County, Alabama sometime in the 1830’s. (Rawick) She was the property of Mr. Leslie Johnson and worked as a housemaid, nanny and seamstress. Her story is one of the happier tales as Mrs. Anderson believed she had a good life back then and was not accustomed