Author Index - W

W : 48 Authors Found

Lauren Wiygul

Cullman
The city of Cullman is the county seat and largest city of Cullman County. It is located between the...

Evergreen
Known as "the Emerald City," Evergreen is located in southwestern Alabama and is the county seat of ...

Livingston
Livingston, the county seat of Sumter County, is located in west-central Alabama between Tuscaloosa and...

Marion
Known as "College City," Marion is the county seat of Perry County and is located in the westcentral...

Opelika
The city of Opelika, known once as the Trading Center of East Alabama, is the county seat of Lee County...

Phenix City
Phenix City is the county seat of Russell County and is located in east Alabama along the west bank of...

Troy
The city of Troy is the county seat and the largest town in Pike County. From its origins as a small...

A. James Wohlpart

Hardin E. Taliaferro
A Baptist minister, Hardin (often spelled Harden) Taliaferro (1811-1875) is also one of Alabama's...

Janice Wood

 The Huntsville Times 
 The Huntsville Times has served the city of Huntsville and the state for more than 100 years. Among notable...

Julia Erin Wood

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Alabama (SNCC)
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "Snick") was founded in Raleigh, North...

W. Kirk Wood

Clarence Cason
Coming of age in the turbulent South of the early twentieth century, Clarence Cason (1896-1935) saw firsthand...

Rebecca Woodham

Buford Boone
Though not a native Alabamian, Buford Boone (1909-1983) nonetheless became one of the state's leading...

Johnnie Carr
Johnnie Carr (1911-2008) devoted her life to civil rights and to improving the lives of all the residents...

Jonathan Myrick Daniels
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (1939-1965), an Episcopal seminarian, spent little time in Alabama, but the influence...

Virginia Foster Durr
Over the course of her long life, Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a constant presence in Alabama...

William Bradford Huie
William Bradford "Bill" Huie (1910-1986) ranks as one of Alabama's most prolific authors. Over the...

Lowndes County Freedom Organization
The Lowndes County Freedom Organization, or Black Panther Party, was a short-lived political party that...

Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed in the days following the December 1955 arrest...

Jo Ann Robinson
Although not as well-known as Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King, Jr., Jo Ann Robinson (1912-1992) was...

Arthur Davis Shores
Long before marches and demonstrations made the civil rights movement a feature of nightly newscasts,...

Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW)
From 1938 to 1948, the Birmingham-based Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) tried to bring long-overdue...

A. J. Wright

Cornelius Nathaniel Dorsette
Cornelius N. Dorsette (1852?-1897) is often identified as the first licensed or certified black physician...

Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA)
Organized in 1847, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA) became the first statewide...

Southern Research Institute
Established in 1944 as the first independent scientific research center in the Southeast, the Southern...

Karen Wynne

Community-Supported Agriculture
An increasing number of farms in Alabama are adopting the community supported agriculture (CSA) model...

Organic Farming
Organic farming is poised to become an emerging industry in Alabama as public concerns about health and...