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Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/ AL-ə-BAM-ə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay, a historically significant port. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists (Alabama Creoles) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Politically, as part of the Deep South, Alabama is predominantly a conservative state, and is known for its Southern culture. Within Alabama, American football, particularly at the college level, plays a major part of the state's culture.

Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following the American Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery marches made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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Evans in Washington, D.C., 1925

Hiram Wesley Evans (September 26, 1881 – September 14, 1966) was an American dentist and political activist who served as the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1922 to his resignation in 1939.

A native of Alabama, Evans attended Vanderbilt University studying dentistry. He operated a small, moderately successful practice in Texas until 1920, when he joined the Klan's Dallas chapter. He quickly rose through the ranks and was part of a group that ousted William Joseph Simmons from the position of Imperial Wizard, the national leader, in November 1922. Evans succeeded him and sought to transform the group into a political power. (Full article...)

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Chattahoochee River at Jones Bridge Park in Peachtree Corners, Georgia

The Chattahoochee River (/ˌtʃætəˈhuːtʃi/) is a river in the Southern United States. It forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and emptying from Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. The Chattahoochee River is about 430 miles (690 km) long. The Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola rivers together make up the Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin (ACF River Basin). The Chattahoochee makes up the largest part of the ACF's drainage basin. (Full article...)

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Image 1Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 2Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 3Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 4The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 5The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 6Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 7The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 8Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 9Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 10The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery. It houses the Supreme Court of Alabama, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. (from Alabama)
Image 11The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 12The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 13Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 14Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 15Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 16The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 17Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 18Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 19Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 20Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 21The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 22Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 23Harrison Plaza at the University of North Alabama in Florence. The school was chartered as LaGrange College by the Alabama Legislature in 1830. (from Alabama)
Image 24Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 25William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 261823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 27Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 28Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 29Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 30Blast furnaces such as the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Ensley Works made Birmingham an important center for iron production in the early 20th century. (from History of Alabama)
Image 31Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 32Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)

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Image 34The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 35Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 36The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 37Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 38Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 39The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 40Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 41Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 42The former Mount Sinai School in rural Autauga County, completed in 1919. It was one of the 387 Rosenwald Schools built in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 43Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 44Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 45Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 46Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 47Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 48Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 49Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 50Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 511725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 52Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 53Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 54A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)

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... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery?
... that Alabama Pitts was noted by the Los Angeles Times in 1934 as "the most prominent jail-bird athlete in America"?
... that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic, Republican, and independent representative?
... that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
... that New York City's largest office building is owned by an Alabama pension fund?
... that an Alabama radio station was described by its program director as a "no-format mess"?

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