Southern Byways

Getting a better Picture of Alabama

by SP on September 21st, 2007

If you are digging into your family tree and think that some of your ancestors came from Alabama, you might want to check the info here. I just might have made your list a whole lot easier!

Thanks to Amanda Marshall, the town of Birmingham is one that you are not likely to forget. And for that reason I decided to check out what restaurants are famous there!

My uncle is a Southern planter. He’s an undertaker in Alabama.
Fred A. Allen

“When I get to be a composer
I’m gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama. “Daybreak in Alabama
Langston Hughes

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I’d done everything there was to do
Paula Poundstone

Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me;
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.
Foster, Stephen Collins

The Monarch butterfly is the state’s official insect.

In 1955 a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a successful boycott of the city’s public transportation and brought the technique of passive resistance to national prominence.

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