Territory visited by Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto
1783
Alabama ceded to the United States after the Revolutionary War
1819
Admitted to the Union as the 22nd state
1861
The Confederacy was founded at Montgomery, which was for some time it’s capital
1955-1956
Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
1965
Martin Luther King Jr. commands the famous and successful "Freedom March" from Selma to Montgomery
Present Day
Visitors to Tuscaloosa can see the famous Helen Keller birthplace
Alabama - Facts
The US Space and Rocket Center is located in Huntsville, nicknamed the Rocket City
The Black Belt, an area of fertile, black soil and centered around Montgomery, covers central Alabama. This term is also sometimes used to describe the African Americans living in Alabama
Mobile is a major US port city
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, located on the Tennessee River
Russell Cave in the northeastern corner of the state was home to prehistoric Indians who lived there 9000 years ago
The Tenn-Tom Waterway links Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provides electricity to northern Alabama
Hernando De Soto explored the area in the early sixteenth century
Birmingham is nicknamed the "Pittsburgh of the South".
The Boll Weevil, a tiny insect that destroys cotton crops, caused farmers in the region to switch to peanut crops, which showed man’s ability to diversify, and hence a monument of a woman holding this insect stands in Enterprise, Alabama. This monument is the largest ever to be dedicated to an insect in the world