Glossary

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• Roland Cooper State Park
  Roland Cooper State Park is located in Wilcox County, six miles northeast of the town of Camden. The...
• Bernard Romans
  Surveyor, artist, naturalist, and author Bernard Romans (ca. 1720-ca. 1783) recorded Alabama's coastline...
• Rose Bowl of 1926
  The 1926 Rose Bowl game, in which the University of Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the heavily favored...
• Mel Rosen
  Mel Rosen (1928- ) came to Auburn University in the fall of 1955 as an assistant track coach. By the...
• Rosenbaum House Museum
  The Rosenbaum House in Florence, Lauderdale County, is the only dwelling in Alabama designed by American...
• Rosenwald Schools in Alabama
  Rosenwald schools refer to a group of educational institutions established in the South for African Americans...
• John Ross
  John Ross (1790-1866) was the most important Cherokee political leader of the nineteenth century. He...
• Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
  Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. (1933-1998) is one of the most controversial figures of the civil rights movement...
• Ruffner Mountain Nature Center
  Located in eastern Jefferson County, straddling the border between Birmingham and Irondale, Ruffner Mountain...
• Runaway Slaves
  As many as 435,000 slaves lived in Alabama in 1860, comprising about 45 percent of the state's total...