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Alabama ( AL -ə-BAM -ə ) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States . It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states .
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State , after the state bird . Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie " and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay , a historically significant port. Alabama's capital is Montgomery , and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville . Its oldest city is Mobile , founded by French colonists (Alabama Creoles ) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana . Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Politically, as part of the Deep South , Alabama is predominantly a conservative state, and is known for its Southern culture . Within Alabama, American football , particularly at the college level, plays a major part of the state's culture.
Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War . Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton , and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America , with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following the American Civil War , Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery march made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article... )
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The 2007 UAW-Ford 500 was the 30th stock car race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the fourth in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Nextel Cup . It was held on October 7, 2007, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama , before a crowd of 155,000. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won the 188-lap race starting from 34th position. His teammate Jimmie Johnson finished second and Dave Blaney was third.
The
Car of Tomorrow debuted at a
superspeedway , but it was heavily criticized for its lack of visibility, and drivers raised fears of becoming airborne if hit.
Michael Waltrip won the
pole position by posting the fastest lap in qualifying but was passed by Blaney by the end of the first lap. The race lead changed 42 times, with
Denny Hamlin leading the most laps out of anybody else (40). Johnson took the lead after driving on the outside lane on lap 183. Johnson led as the final lap began, but Gordon went to the outside of the track, and was
bump-drafted by
Tony Stewart , allowing him to claim his fifth victory of the season, his sixth at Talladega Superspeedway, the 80th of his career, and he took over from
Dale Earnhardt as the driver with the most
restrictor plate wins, twelve. (
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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite .
Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was
freed when U.S. troops reached the area during the
Civil War . As a young man, Booker T. Washington worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at
Wayland Seminary . In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new
Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama , an
institute for black higher education . He expanded the college, enlisting students in construction of buildings. Work at the college was considered fundamental to students' larger education. He attained national prominence for his
Atlanta Address of 1895 , which attracted the attention of politicians and the public. Washington played a dominant role in black politics, winning wide support in the black community of the South and among more liberal whites. Washington wrote an autobiography,
Up from Slavery , in 1901, which became a major text. In that year, he
dined with
Theodore Roosevelt at the
White House , which was the first time a black person publicly met the president on equal terms. After an illness, he died in
Tuskegee, Alabama on November 14, 1915. (
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The following are images from various Alabama-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from
Alabama )
Image 2 Tornado damage in
Phil Campbell following the statewide
April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from
Alabama )
Image 3 Terminal at the
Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from
Alabama )
Image 5 Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from
Alabama )
Image 6 Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from
Alabama )
Image 9 William J. Samford Hall at
Auburn University (from
Alabama )
Image 10 1725 map of
Mobile , Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from
History of Alabama )
Image 11 The
Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the
Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from
Alabama )
Image 12 Ono Island in Baldwin County (from
Alabama )
Image 13 Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from
Alabama )
Image 14 Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from
Alabama )
Image 16 Senator
Doug Jones won a
special election in 2017. (from
Alabama )
Image 17 The
Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from
Alabama )
Image 18 The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from
Alabama )
Image 19 A stand of
Cahaba lilies (
Hymenocallis coronaria ) in the
Cahaba River , within the
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from
Alabama )
Image 20 Dauphin Street in Mobile (from
Alabama )
Image 21 The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from
Alabama )
Image 22 Blast furnaces such as the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company 's Ensley Works made
Birmingham an important center for iron production in the early 20th century. (from
History of Alabama )
Image 23 The
State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from
Alabama )
Image 24 Map of counties in Alabama by racial plurality, per the 2020 census
Non-Hispanic White 40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90%+
Black or African American 40–50%
50–60%
70–80%
80–90%
(from
Alabama )
Image 26 Regions Field in Birmingham (from
Alabama )
Image 27 1823 Map of Alabama (from
History of Alabama )
Image 28 Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from
Alabama )
Image 29 The
Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from
Alabama )
Image 30 The Natural Bridge Rock in
Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from
Alabama )
Image 31 The main house, built in 1833, at
Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former
Black Belt plantation. (from
Alabama )
Image 32 Map of Alabama from the
National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from
Alabama )
Image 34 Regions-Harbert Plaza ,
Regions Center , and
Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from
Alabama )
Image 35 Artists conception of
Moundville , a
Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from
History of Alabama )
Image 36 Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from
Alabama )
Image 37 Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from
Alabama )
Image 38 Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the
University of South Alabama in Mobile (from
Alabama )
Image 39 Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from
Alabama )
Image 40 Ethnic origins in Alabama (from
Alabama )
Image 41 The former
Mount Sinai School in rural Autauga County, completed in 1919. It was one of the 387
Rosenwald Schools built in the state. (from
Alabama )
Image 42 Lighthouse on
Guntersville Lake (from
Alabama )
Image 43 Cliffs at the rim of the
Wetumpka meteorite crater (from
Alabama )
Image 44 Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from
History of Alabama )
Image 45 Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from
Alabama )
Image 46 Interstate 59 (co-signed with
Interstate 20 ) approaching
Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from
Alabama )
Image 47 Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from
Alabama )
Image 48 Artist's conception of the
Taskigi Site , a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from
History of Alabama )
Image 49 Alabama's population density, 2010 (from
Alabama )
Image 50 Harrison Plaza at the
University of North Alabama in Florence. The school was chartered as LaGrange College by the
Alabama Legislature in 1830. (from
Alabama )
Image 51 Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from
Alabama )
Image 53 The inauguration of
Jefferson Davis in
Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from
History of Alabama )
Image 54 The
Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from
Alabama )
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