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Researching Hispanics in Alabama

October 10th, 2011 · No Comments

We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately from students doing research on this topic. I just wanted to take a minute this morning to [...]

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Headed to Medical School? Thank Abraham Flexner.

February 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

For most of recorded history, it has been almost impossible to tell the difference between a trained experienced doctor and a quack who is a [...]

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Freedom’s Sister: Sonia Sanchez

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Born in 1949, in Birmingham, AL, to Wilson Driver and Lena Jones, Wilsonia, Sonia to her family, suffered through a childhood of loss and upheaval. [...]

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Freedom’s Sister: Harriet Tubman

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments

We all think we know Harriet Tubman. She was an American Moses, staring out at us from the daguerreotype, stalwart and determined. Many were first [...]

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Freedom’s Sister: Mary Church Terrell

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments

In the introduction to her 1940 autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, Mary Church Terrell wrote that “A white woman has only one [...]

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