Amasa Ben Windham Jr., 1950-2018

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Title

Amasa Ben Windham Jr., 1950-2018

Subject

Reporters and reporting--United States--Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Writers

Description

Amasa Ben Windham, son of famed Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham, was a longtime reporter and editor at The Tuscaloosa News.

After working as a DJ when a teenager in Selma, Windham attended Birmingham-Southern College where he wrote for the school newspaper. After graduation, he worked for the Decatur Daily before coming to The Tuscaloosa News for the remainder of his career.

Windham married Susan Raines Windham and had one son, David Windham.

Ben Windham died Feb. 18, 2018, leaving hundreds of his columns in the archives of The Tuscaloosa News.

Source

Tuscaloosa News

Publisher

The Tuscaloosa News

Date

Feb. 22, 2018

Contributor

Betty Slowe (Description)

Type

Photograph

Identifier

2425

Coverage

Tuscaloosa County (AL)