People Index - R

R : 20 Articles Found

• Railroad Bill
  The legend of Railroad Bill arose in the winter of 1895, along the Louisville and Nashville (L&N)...
• Howell Raines
  Journalist Howell Raines's (1943- ) career took him from a position as a local Birmingham reporter...
• Erskine Ramsay
  Erskine Ramsay (1864-1953) was a mining engineer, inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist. Although...
• James T. Rapier
  James Thomas Rapier (1837-1883) was one of three African American Republican congressmen from Alabama...
• Louise Crenshaw Ray
  Poet Louise Crenshaw Ray (1890-1956) was born and lived her entire life in Alabama, publishing four volumes...
• Julian Lee Rayford
  Julian Lee Rayford (1908-1980), known to his friends as "Judy," was a novelist and poet and also wrote...
• James Reeb
  A social worker and Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend James Reeb (1927-1965) was severely beaten...
• J. J. D. Renfroe
  J. J. D. Renfroe (1830-1888), a mostly self-educated Southern Baptist minister, rose to prominence in...
• Condoleezza Rice
  Birmingham native Condoleezza Rice (1954-) is a foreign policy expert who served as provost of Stanford...
• William Richardson
  William Richardson (1839-1914) represented the 8th Congressional District of Alabama from 1900 to 1914,...