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  • Collection: People of Interest

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Circa 1897 - The flower-laden carriage in which Naneita McEachin and Mary Hewell Nabors ride may have been part of a parade at the University of Alabama; McEachin was a Corolla Beauty in the college annual of 1896. The carriage is shown on the 709…

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Dr. Cathy Randall is the Chairman of the Board of Pettus Randall Holdings, LLC, and is the former Chairman of the Board of Randall Publishing Company, the former Director of the University Honors Programs at The University of Alabama, and a former…

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Charles Allen Stillman was a minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Tuscaloosa, who founded Tuscaloosa Institute in 1876. The Institute became Stillman College.

Initially, the college focused almost exclusively on training blacks for the…

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Charles Henry Land, longtime publisher of The Tuscaloosa News, was born in 1932 in Memphis, Tenn., but grew up in Tuscaloosa where he attended local public schools and the University of Alabama. He spent three years in the U.S. Army.

Land spent…

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Charles Henry Land, longtime publisher of The Tuscaloosa News, was born in 1932 in Memphis, Tenn., but grew up in Tuscaloosa where he attended local public schools and the University of Alabama. He spent three years in the U.S. Army.

Land spent…

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Dedicated – determined – hard working – and a believer in every young mind, Chester Fredd was born on January 26, 1906, in Sawyerville, Alabama. He achieved his early education in Hale County schools, attending a one room school during his elementary…

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Clara Roberts Jemison was assistant editor of The Tuscaloosa Times and the second wife of William Carlos Jemison, (1849-1901) who owned and was editor of the paper. The couple married in 1889 and had two children: William Carlos Jemison, born in…

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Claude W. Dent, Jr. was president and general manager of Rigg Stephenson Motors before owning his own auto dealership, Claude Dent Motors.

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C.D. Davenport, (b. 1907) was named executive vice-president of the Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce in 1963, succeeding P.B. Raiford who resigned earlier in the year. Davenport later became executive director of the organization. After ten years in…

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Cliff Davenport, (also known as Clifford Delmar Davenport or C. D. Davenport) executive vice president of the Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce, on left, greets Prabhat Sarang at the President's Mansion at the University of Alabama. The woman nearest…
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