Author Index - J

J : 22 Authors Found

Edgar B. Jackson

David Satcher
Anniston native David Satcher (1941- ) is noted for serving as Surgeon General of the United States and...

Harvey H. Jackson

Chauncey Sparks (1943-47)
Chauncey Sparks (1884-1968) became governor during the height of World War II. He inherited full employment...

Alabama Bourbons
The term Bourbon was used nationally to describe conservative Democrats active in the late nineteenth and...

Jason Baird Jackson

Stomp Dance
Both a form of dance and an event, the Stomp Dance is practiced by many of the Native American peoples...

Yuchis in Alabama
The Yuchi are a Native American tribe who resided in present-day Alabama until the early 1830s, when...

Kathy Dunn Jackson

Mary Elizabeth Vroman
Mary Elizabeth Vroman (1924?-1967) was a young Alabama schoolteacher when she published her first story,...

Steven Leonard Jacobs

Mobile's Jewish Community
Mobile boasts the oldest Jewish community in the state of Alabama. The city's present-day community...

John S. Jahera Jr.

BBVA Compass Bank
Founded as Compass Bank in Birmingham in the 1960s, BBVA Compass is an Alabama-based banking organization...

Banking Industry in Alabama
Alabama's banking industry includes nearly 150 different banks with more than 1,300 branches located...

Robert "Jeff" Jakeman

Tuskegee Flight Training Program
In late 1939, after World War II had begun in Europe, Tuskegee Institute in Macon County inaugurated...

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Modern Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
The modern civil rights movement in Alabama burst into public consciousness with a single act of civil...

Ove Jensen

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park was established to preserve the site of the Battle of Horseshoe...

Battle of Horseshoe Bend
On the morning of March 27, 1814, in what is now Tallapoosa County, General Andrew Jackson and an army...

Ellin Sterne Jimmerson

Olin King
Olin Berry King (1934- ) is co-founder, former chairman of the board, and former chief executive officer...

SCI Systems, Inc.
Founded in a basement in Huntsville, Madison County, basement in 1961 by engineers Olin B. King, Bill...

Louise Wooster
Louise Catherine Wooster (1842-1913) was the madam of an exclusive house of prostitution in Birmingham...