Author Index - R

R : 28 Authors Found

Stephanie Rogers

Old Monroe County Courthouse Museum
The Old Monroe County Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Monroe County, is the centerpiece of a five-site...

William Warren Rogers

Robert M. Patton (1865-67)
Robert Miller Patton (1809-1885) was inaugurated as governor of Alabama on December 13, 1865, only eight...

George S. Houston (1874-78)
George S. Houston (1811-1879) was a lawyer, state and federal representative, and governor who was the...

Governor's Election of 1892
The Alabama governor's election of 1892 was one of the state's most corrupt electoral contests....

R. B. Rosenburg

Emmet O'Neal (1911-15)
Like his father, Governor Edward O'Neal, Emmet O'Neal (1853-1922) was president of the state...

Joe Ross

Jack Bethea
A lifelong Birmingham resident, Andrew Jackson Bethea (1892-1928) wrote novels of the New South noteworthy...

Joe David Brown
Joe David Brown (1915-1976) drew memorably from his own life to compose his fiction: his grandfather's...

Howell Hubert Vines
Howell Vines (1899-1981) is best characterized as a local-color author who drew his inspiration from...

Stephen M. Rowe

Eufaula Athenaeum
The Eufaula Athenaeum, opened in 2005 in a historic building in Eufaula, Barbour County, houses a collection...

Herbert G. Ruffin

Great Migration From Alabama
In what came to be called the Great Migration, an estimated five and a half million African Americans...

Willie Mays
Willie Mays (1931- ) is one of the greatest baseball players to ever play the game. Only his excellence...

Samuel A. Rumore Jr.

Nina Miglionico
Nina Miglionico (1913–2009) was an early activist for women's rights and to date is the longest-practicing...

James Emmett Ryan

Emmylou Harris
One of the truly distinctive and prolific American female singers to emerge in the last 50 years, Emmylou...