PATRON + “I can still remember when I was 4 or 5 years-old and we’d run around the track and play out there...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward PATRON + "I can still remember when I was 4 or 5 years-old and we'd run around the track and play out there Posted by Donna R Causey on 10 February, 2022 Two horse racetracks flourished around the turn of the century in Birmingham, Alabama. Trotwood Park was located at 75th Street and 9th Avenue North. The Birmingham Jockey Club was one mile in length and ran parallel to Third Avenue West. It was part of the Birmingham Fair Association. Birmingham Jockey Club was reorganized The Birmingham […] Read more → PATRON + Anne Newport Royall – A family reunited in 1821 Posted by Donna R Causey on 10 February, 2022 In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her husband died, she was left penniless and she toured Alabama for four years as one of the first newspaperwomen in America. She wrote letters to her friends about Alabama and the […] Read more → Feb. 10, 1881 – Tuskegee Institute was established by the Alabama Legislature Posted by Donna R Causey on 10 February, 2022 (Photo African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala ca. 1902 (Frances Benjamin Johnston, Library of Congress) Tuskegee University was founded in a “one room shanty near Butler Chapel AME Zion Church by teacher Dr. Booker T. Washington.”1 On February 10, 1881, the Alabama Legislature established Tuskegee Institute as a “normal school for the education […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe